MacOS .app bundle won't open

[Zoe Cheimets]

Hi, 

I am a new PyInstaller user trying to create a signed and notarized textual app for distribution outside of the App Store. I'm able to create a working executable for Windows and Linux, but having trouble with the .app bundle aspect of MacOS. 

The executable itself works on my Mac, even running MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/myexecutable works after compiling the bundle with PyInstaller. However, double clicking on MyApp, or running `open MyApp.app` in the terminal results in my app timing out and/or crashing. This is the same behavior whether I sign and notarize or not. 

I use my own .spec file and entitlements file. The entitlements file only sets com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit and com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory to true. 

The Console logs have not been very helpful. Here are a few that I think are of note:

1. failed to fetch **.app/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeRequirements-1 error=-10

2. found no value for key NSDoubleLocalizedStrings in CFPrefsSearchListSource<0x114f0a160> (Domain: com.**.**, Container: (null))

3. Launch Services encountered an error, converting to OSStatus -43: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “Library” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSURL=Library/ -- file:/**app/Contents/, NSFilePath=**.app/Contents/Library, NSUnderlyingError=0x9d417ea30 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}

I replaced any private information with **! 

Grateful for any help! Thanks!

[Zoe Cheimets]

My spec file:

a = Analysis(

['switch_cc_tool.py'],

pathex=[],

binaries=[],

datas=[('*data*', '**'),

('**', '**data**')],

hiddenimports=['textual.widgets._tab_pane','yaml','lxml','jinja2'],

hookspath=[],

hooksconfig={},

runtime_hooks=[],

excludes=['pkg_resources'],

noarchive=False,

optimize=0,

)

pyz = PYZ(a.pure)

exe = EXE(

pyz,

a.scripts,

a.binaries,

a.datas,

[],

name='myapp',

debug=True,

bootloader_ignore_signals=False,

strip=False,

upx=True,

upx_exclude=[],

runtime_tmpdir=None,

console=True,

disable_windowed_traceback=False,

argv_emulation=False,

target_arch=None,

codesign_identity=None,

entitlements_file=None,

)

app = BUNDLE(

exe,

name='myApp.app',

icon=None,

bundle_identifier = 'com.mycompany.myapp',

info_plist = {

'CFBundleIdentifier' : 'com.mycompany.myapp',

'CFBundleDisplayName' : 'MyApp',

'CFBundleName' : 'MyApp',

'CFBundleExecutable' : 'my_app',

'CFBundlePackageType' : 'APPL',

'LSBackgroundOnly' : False

}

)