And we have frozen builds working with kitty-tool

bypy/init_env.py

@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ def run_tests(kitty_exe):
             raise SystemExit('Checking of kitty build failed')
 
 
+def build_frozen_tools(kitty_exe):
+    cmd = SETUP_CMD + ['--prefix', os.path.dirname(kitty_exe)] + ['build-frozen-tools']
+    if run(*cmd, cwd=build_frozen_launcher.writeable_src_dir) != 0:
+        print('Building of frozen kitty-tool failed', file=sys.stderr)
+        os.chdir(KITTY_DIR)
+        run_shell()
+        raise SystemExit('Building of kitty-tool launcher failed')
+
+
 def sanitize_source_folder(path: str) -> None:
     for q in walk(path):
         if os.path.splitext(q)[1] not in ('.py', '.glsl', '.ttf', '.otf'):

bypy/linux/__main__.py

@@ -238,10 +238,12 @@ def main():
     files = find_binaries(env)
     fix_permissions(files)
     add_ca_certs(env)
+    kitty_exe = os.path.join(env.base, 'bin', 'kitty')
+    iv['build_frozen_tools'](kitty_exe)
     if not args.dont_strip:
         strip_binaries(files)
     if not args.skip_tests:
-        iv['run_tests'](os.path.join(env.base, 'bin', 'kitty'))
+        iv['run_tests'](kitty_exe)
     create_tarfile(env, args.compression_level)
 
 

bypy/macos/__main__.py

@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ class Freeze(object):
         self.add_misc_libraries()
         self.freeze_python()
         self.add_ca_certs()
+        self.build_frozen_tools()
         if not self.dont_strip:
             self.strip_files()
         if not self.skip_tests:
@@ -378,6 +379,10 @@ class Freeze(object):
             if f.endswith('.so') or f.endswith('.dylib'):
                 self.fix_dependencies_in_lib(f)
 
+    @flush
+    def build_frozen_tools(self):
+        iv['build_frozen_tools'](join(self.contents_dir, 'MacOS', 'kitty'))
+
     @flush
     def add_site_packages(self):
         print('\nAdding site-packages')

setup.py

@@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@ def option_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:  # {{{
                  'macos-freeze',
                  'build-launcher',
                  'build-frozen-launcher',
+                 'build-frozen-tools',
                  'clean',
                  'export-ci-bundles',
                  'build-dep',
@@ -1689,7 +1690,8 @@ def main() -> None:
             init_env_from_args(args, False)
             bundle_type = ('macos' if is_macos else 'linux') + '-freeze'
             build_launcher(args, launcher_dir=os.path.join(args.prefix, 'bin'), bundle_type=bundle_type)
-            build_kitty_tool(args, launcher_dir=os.path.join(args.prefix, 'bin'))
+        elif args.action == 'build-frozen-tools':
+            build_kitty_tool(args, launcher_dir=args.prefix)
         elif args.action == 'linux-package':
             build(args, native_optimizations=False)
             package(args, bundle_type='linux-package')
@@ -1699,7 +1701,6 @@ def main() -> None:
         elif args.action == 'macos-freeze':
             init_env_from_args(args, native_optimizations=False)
             build_launcher(args, launcher_dir=launcher_dir)
-            build_kitty_tool(args, launcher_dir=launcher_dir)
             build(args, native_optimizations=False, call_init=False)
             package(args, bundle_type='macos-freeze')
         elif args.action == 'kitty.app':