How to create an ".app" from python with Nuitka on Mac

Question

First time trying Nuitka, on macOS (10.14).

I did python3 -m nuitka --standalone hello.py (also tried with --clang )

The result is a weird hello.dist folder – which doesn't even appear as a folder in Finder – which contains a bunch of .so files, Python and my executable hello .

I thought it would create an .app bundle? Is there another step?

(I also tried https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus but that doesn't really compile the python.)

Answer 1

Try:

python3 -m nuitka --standalone --macos-create-app-bundle hello.py