MacPorts

First, install macports.
Configure macports so that it will build GTK and its libraries against aqua rather X11 by adding the following options to ${prefix}/etc/macports/variants.conf:

+no_x11 -x11 +quartz

When using py2app it is quite likely that you will encounter this error: "ValueError: New Mach-O header is too large to relocate" so you should probably prevent it by adding the link option "-Xlinker -headerpad_max_install_names" (see here for more details)

Main Python packages from MacPorts

Install the following ports for Python 2.6:

port install py26-crypto py26-gtk py26-py2app py26-distribute py26-twisted gtk-osx-application python_select

port install py27-crypto py27-gtk py27-py2app py27-distribute py27-twisted gtk-osx-application python_select

• distribute supercedes setuptools on osx
• Python 2.5 is no longer supported
• Building macports on AMD CPUs may require adding: "--host=none-apple-darwin ABI=long" to the configure stage of some ports (gmp for example)

python_select python26

Other Python packages

You must also install some python libraries which are not available from macports, the easiest way is to use easy_install (installed above as part of distribute):

easy_install netifaces pam pyutmp pyasn1

Build Package

From the source tree, you can create the installer package using:

python ./setup.py py2app

sudo ./release/local-install.sh

Caveats:

• zope.interface issue: create a blank zope/__init__.py
• You forgot to call g_type_init()

Extra packages: VNC, Xpra, NX..

You can install TigerVNC using macports:

port install tigervnc

NX and xpra have to be compiled from source manually, see here.

We do provide some unsupported binaries that you can try here.