bdist_dmg

This command is available on Mac OS X systems; it creates an application bundle, then package it into a DMG disk image suitable for distribution and installation.

option name	description
volume_label	Volume label of the DMG disk image
applications_shortcut	Boolean for whether to include shortcuts to Applications in the DMG disk image
silent (-s)	suppress all output except warnings
format	Format of the DMG disk image Default is UDZO
filesystem	Filesystem of the DMG disk image Default is HFS+
size	If defined, specifies the size of the filesystem within the image. If this is not defined, cx_Freeze (and then dmgbuild) will attempt to determine a reasonable size for the image. If you set this, you should set it large enough to hold the files you intend to copy into the image. The syntax is the same as for the -size argument to hdiutil, i.e. you can use the suffixes b, k, m, g, t, p and e for bytes, kilobytes,megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, exabytes and petabytes respectively.
background	A rgb color in the form #3344ff, svg named color like goldenrod, a path to an image, or the words ‘builtin-arrow’. Default is None.
show_status_bar	Show the status bar in the Finder window. Default is False.
show_tab_view	Show the tab view in the Finder window. Default is False.
show_path_bar	Show the path bar in the Finder window. Default is False.
show_sidebar	Show the sidebar in the Finder window. Default is False.
sidebar_width	Width of the sidebar in the Finder window. Default is None.
windows_rect	Window rectangle in the form x,y,width,height” The position of the window in ((x, y), (w, h)) format, with y coordinates running from bottom to top. The Finder makes sure that the window will be on the user’s display, so if you want your window at the top left of the display you could use (0, 100000) as the x, y coordinates. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be possible to position the window relative to the top left or relative to the centre of the user’s screen.
icon_locations	A dictionary specifying the coordinates of items in the root directory of the disk image, where the keys are filenames and the values are (x, y) tuples. For example, icon_locations = { “Applications”: (100, 100), “README.txt”: (200, 100) }
default_view	The default view of the Finder window. Possible values are “icon-view”, “list-view”, “column-view”, “coverflow”.
show_icon_preview	Show icon preview in the Finder window. Default is False.
license	Dictionary specifying license details with ‘default-language’, ‘licenses’, and ‘buttons’. default-language: Language code (e.g., ‘en_US’) if no matching system language. licenses: Map of language codes to license file paths (e.g., {‘en_US’: ‘path/to/license_en.txt’}). buttons: Map of language codes to UI strings ([language, agree, disagree, print, save, instruction]). Example: {‘default-language’: ‘en_US’, ‘licenses’: {‘en_US’: ‘path/to/license_en.txt’}, ‘buttons’: {‘en_US’: [‘English’, ‘Agree’, ‘Disagree’, ‘Print’, ‘Save’, ‘Instruction text’]}}

Added in version 7.2: format, filesystem, size, background, show_status_bar, show_tab_view, show_path_bar, show_sidebar, sidebar_width, windows_rect, icon_locations, default_view, show_icon_preview, license options.

The above options come from the dmgbuild package. For more information, see the dmgbuild documentation .

This is the equivalent help to specify the same options on the command line:

python setup.py bdist_dmg --help