[PyQt] py2app generates huge files (200MB)

[piotr maliński]

check out my tutorial:
http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/building-mac-os-x-applications-py2app/

QtCore/QtGui app zipped should be about 12MB intel-only (22MB if you use
Universal Qt - thus making universal py2app application)

2009/6/27 Michael Held <michael.held at bc.biol.ethz.ch>

> hi pyqt,
>
> I am using PyQt4.5 and py2app 0.3.6 on MacOS 10.5
>
> > from setuptools import setup
> >
> > APP = ['MyApp.py']
> > DATA_FILES = []
> > OPTIONS = {'argv_emulation': True,
> >            'includes': [],
> >            }
> >
> > setup(
> >     app=APP,
> >     data_files=DATA_FILES,
> >     options={'py2app': OPTIONS},
> >     setup_requires=['py2app'],
> > )
>
> running this setup.py PyQt4, sip and the Qt framework are detected and
> the app runs fine,
>
> *BUT* the app is 200MB (TWOHUNDRET MEGABYTES) big and its doing nothing
> but opening an empty QFrame.
> I looked into the app-contents and found a lot of debug stuff for the
> QtGui/QtCore Frameworks.
>
> after deleting these files the app was still running fine and only 42MB
> big (I found a lot of Pyhton libs/packages in there which are not used
> at all)
>
> 42MB for an "empty program" is ok, since all my scripts will not add
> much size, but 200MB is just *too big*.
> it looks like py2app is including a lot of unnecessary stuff...
> could stackless Python 2.6.2 is the problem?
>
> thanks a lot for your help!
> michael
>
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