How to generate a macOS windowed app (BUNDLE) in spec file?

[joncox123]

I am trying to create macOS app (windowed app with info.plist, not a UNIX executable) using a spec file. I do not want to use the command line. The spec file documentation describes creating a "BUNDLE" app from the "exe", but it does not say what to do with this. I tried passing this BUNDLE to "COLLECT", but it throws the following error:
TypeError: Invalid argument type for COLLECT: <class 'PyInstaller.building.osx.BUNDLE'>

What is the proper way to make use of the macOS BUNDLE? The documentation lacks the proper context.

# Do what with this in spec file??
app = BUNDLE(exe,
         name='myscript.app',
         icon=None,
         bundle_identifier=None)

[rokm]

Hmm, the part of docs you linked is actually outdated - you should not be generating BUNDLE from exe, unless you are trying to create a onefile .app bundle (which you should not).

Instead, you should pass instance of COLLECT (coll) to the BUNDLE:

...

coll = COLLECT(...)

app = BUNDLE(
    coll,
    name='myscript.app',
    icon=None,
    bundle_identifier=None,
)

The most surefire way to find this out would be to use command-line to generate a sample spec for you, even if you don't want to use command-line later on...

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but it does not say what to do with this

It will generate myscript.app in the dist directory, in addition to the POSIX executable.

[joncox123]

Thank you for clarifying!