Unable to run on Mac with M1

[d4rky-pl]

Regardless of what I do I'm not able to figure out a way to make tkdnd work on Mac.

I've already:

• Installed python-tk
• Installed tcl-tk
• Installed python 3.11.4 with asdf using stack overflow instruction
• Cleaned up poetry multiple times

I keep getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/matyas/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/gif2tgsticker-lnQPwnqZ-py3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tkinterdnd2/TkinterDnD.py", line 53, in _require
    TkdndVersion = tkroot.tk.call('package', 'require', 'tkdnd')
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
_tkinter.TclError: dlopen(/Users/matyas/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/gif2tgsticker-lnQPwnqZ-py3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tkinterdnd2/tkdnd/osx64/libtkdnd2.9.2.dylib, 0x0006): tried: '/Users/matyas/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/gif2tgsticker-lnQPwnqZ-py3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tkinterdnd2/tkdnd/osx64/libtkdnd2.9.2.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64')), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Users/matyas/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/gif2tgsticker-lnQPwnqZ-py3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tkinterdnd2/tkdnd/osx64/libtkdnd2.9.2.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/matyas/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/gif2tgsticker-lnQPwnqZ-py3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tkinterdnd2/tkdnd/osx64/libtkdnd2.9.2.dylib' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'x86_64', need 'arm64'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/matyas/a/gif2tgsticker/gif2tgsticker.py", line 19, in <module>
    root = tkd.TkinterDnD.Tk()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/matyas/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/gif2tgsticker-lnQPwnqZ-py3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tkinterdnd2/TkinterDnD.py", line 285, in __init__
    self.TkdndVersion = _require(self)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/matyas/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/gif2tgsticker-lnQPwnqZ-py3.11/lib/python3.11/site-packages/tkinterdnd2/TkinterDnD.py", line 55, in _require
    raise RuntimeError('Unable to load tkdnd library.')
RuntimeError: Unable to load tkdnd library.

Is there any chance you could create a CLI-only version of this tool? I really don't need the TK GUI 😅

[iAmGhost]

I think it will be working if you install x86_64 Python instead of ARM.

[MulmVerbot]

i have the same issue, its working on my Intel Mac Mini, but not on my m1 Mac Book.

[iAmGhost]

Seems python-tkdnd is not working for aarch64 platform.
I won't fix it myself since It's not blocker(you can use x86 version of Python) and I don't have Apple Silicon Mac for replication, Feel free to contribute.

[hkleungai]

Maybe a late response, i find a workaround in one of the tkinterdnd2 issue.

poetry remove tkinterdnd2
poetry add tkinterdnd2-universal

With this the app runs fine on my Mac. ❤️

[Squiblydoo]

Posting here for the citizens of the future.
In regards to the tkinterdnd2 issue, I myself am now a maintainer of the tkinterdnd2 repository (github and pypi). I've included the binaries from tkinterdnd2-universal into the tkinterdnd2 repository.

The author of tkinterdnd2-universal deleted their GitHub account and is no longer maintained, and as a result, that PyPI package will fail to work with Python3.13 and newer.

I've updated tkinterdnd2 to account for the change in Python3.13. I am also intending to provide support for tkinterdnd2 into the future to ensure its availability.

[iAmGhost]

@Squiblydoo Thanks for doing that, I've updated tkinterdnd2 to latest version.