Software does not run on current Macs [February 2023]; Solved

[jliphard]

On both Mac ARM silicon and Mac Intel, the software starts, consumes all available memory, and then crashes.

[jliphard]

Troubleshooting Notes

Tried:

% pyinstaller --windowed -n ArtemisFirmwareUploader --noconsole --distpath=. --icon=artemis_firmware_uploader_gui.ico --add-data="artemis_svl.bin:." --add-data="Artemis-Logo-Rounded.png:." artemis_firmware_uploader_gui.py

This gives ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PIL'.
Thus, % pip3 install Pillow.

This yields "INFO: Building BUNDLE BUNDLE-00.toc completed successfully." and a .app that when double clicked crashes immediately.

Then tried to simply run the .py.

This gives ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt5'.
Thus, % pip3 install pyqt5.

This gives ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'serial'.
Thus, % pip3 install serial.

SUCCESS! Gui boots and runs.

% python3 artemis_firmware_uploader_gui.py.

[PaulZC]

Hi Jan (@jliphard ),

Thanks for the update - glad you were able to find a solution!

We have been experimenting with new ways to automatically compile the executables - using GitHub Actions. I'll leave this issue open until we make the new version public - and will make sure your fix is in there.

Many thanks,
Paul

[PaulZC]

Closing this...

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