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J Jones
J Jones

Reputation: 3200

Pyinstaller executable fails on old OS X

I have a wxPython GUI packaged into an executable with Pyinstaller. It works correctly on OS X 10.13.4, but doesn't initialize on OS X 10.12.6.

This is the error output when my executable is run from the command line:

[4693] Error loading Python lib '/var/folders/9_/5d_4dfcs4lj11bdjq4twtl5w0000gp/T/_MEIYsEh11/Python': dlopen:   dlopen(/var/folders/9_/5d_4dfcs4lj11bdjq4twtl5w0000gp/T/_MEIYsEh11/Python, 10): Symbol not found: _futimens
Referenced from: /var/folders/9_/5d_4dfcs4lj11bdjq4twtl5w0000gp/T/_MEIYsEh11/Python (which was built for Mac OS X 10.13)
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
in /var/folders/9_/5d_4dfcs4lj11bdjq4twtl5w0000gp/T/_MEIYsEh11/Python

I have no idea what this error message means. I've tried googling some pieces of it, but I'm not getting any meaningful results.

I'm looking for any clue to get me going in the right direction -- what might be wrong, or how to debug. Unfortunately I don't have access to OS X 10.12.6, so I'm having to troubleshoot for a user remotely.

This is my version of Pyinstaller:

pyinstaller 3.4.dev0+g07ab024c

This seems to happen with brew-installed Python or Anaconda.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2575

Answers (1)

fresbeeplayer
fresbeeplayer

Reputation: 103

A bit late, but it has happened to me as well. After a bit of research, as per the documentation: https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html#making-mac-os-x-apps-forward-compatible

Basically you'll need to install a virtual machine with the oldest OS you'd like support (say, osx maverick, or ubuntu 16) with the complete development environment and run pyinstaller there. As of the time of writing, there seems to be no way around it.

Upvotes: 2

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