py2app produces HUGE file (more than 100MB)

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Hi David,

Thank you for the info,

Do you think bulding both universal and PPC with 10.3 will all cases?

Would it work well with 10.4?

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On 3/13/07, David Woods <dwoods@wcer.wisc.edu > wrote:

On 3/13/07, roee shlomo < > roee88@gmail.com> wrote:

I’m glad to hear it’s not a limit of py2app, thanks.

The content of the app is:

  • Folder: MacOS (188KB)
  • Folder: Frameworks (30.1MB)
  • Folder: Resources (72.2MB)
  • File: info.plist (4KB)
  • File: PkgInfo (4KB)

The big folders are Frameworks and Resources so I will be more specific

about them:

Content of Frameworks (30.1MB total):

  • File: libwx_macud_gizmos-2.8.0.dylib (524KB)
  • File: libwx_macud-2.8.0.dylib (21.8MB)
  • Folder: Python.framework (7.8MB )
    – Details about Python.framework: Includes the file Versions/2.5/python
    (
    7.8MB) and the folder Versions/2.5/Resources (8KB)

Content of Resources (
72.2MB total):

  • boot.py, error.sh, site.py (20KB)
  • My application resources like icons (292KB)
  • Folder: lib (71.9MB)
    – Content of lib: Includes a folder named python2.5 which have a folder
    Config (68KB) and a file site-packages.zip (2MB) and a folder lib-
    dynload
    (69.9MB).

Content of Resources/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload:

  • Many so files like _AE.so, math.so, codecs_jp.so, unicodedata.so…
    (total
    size: 10.4MB)
  • Folder wx (59.4MB) which includes the following files:
    – _aui.so (
    4.6MB)
  • _core.so (11.5MB)
  • _gdi.so (10.8MB)
  • _controls.so (10.4MB)
  • _misc.so (8.4MB)
  • _gizmos.so (5.9MB)
  • _windows.so (7.9MB)

That would be all.
As you can see the wx folder alone is ~60MB.
Please let me know if you see anything unusual.

Those are enormous dll sizes, all of them. The only thing I can think

is that they are all unstripped universal binaries or something.

I don’t do a lot of Mac development, maybe gigantic shared libs are
the norm there?

My OS X 10.4 / “Universal”* release is twice the size (
89.1 MB) as my OS X
10.3 / PPC release ( 47.0 MB), which in turn is almost 5 times larger than my
Windows release (10.2 MB). My Mac app-building script is a little selective
in which parts of wxPython I need to includes, with the following buildapp

parameter:

libs = [
wxPythonLib + ‘libwx_macud-2.8.0.dylib’,
wxPythonLib + ‘libwx_macud-2.8.0.0.0.dylib’,
wxPythonLib + 'libwx_macud_gizmos-2.8.0.dylib
',
wxPythonLib + ‘libwx_macud_gizmos-2.8.0.0.0.dylib’,
wxPythonLib + ‘libwx_macud_stc-2.8.0.dylib’,
wxPythonLib + ‘libwx_macud_stc-2.8.0.0.0.dylib’,

      ],

David Woods
http://www.transana.org

*(For reasons I don’t completely understand having to do with MySQL

connectivity, OS X 10.4 users with PPC chips need my 10.3 PPC release rather
than my 10.4 Universal release. I know that’s off topic. I bring it up
primarily to suggest that more testing is necessary than you might think on

the Mac around issues of chip set and OS version.)

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