diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_linux.yml b/.github/workflows/release_linux.yml
index b99c516016d..44379bb47a6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release_linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_linux.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Releases
+name: Linux Releases
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_mac.yml b/.github/workflows/release_mac.yml
index 9556e5e893c..6314ca6773c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release_mac.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_mac.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Releases
+name: Mac Releases
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release_windows.yml b/.github/workflows/release_windows.yml
index 5885ca60967..33611323900 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release_windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release_windows.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Releases
+name: Windows Releases
 
 on:
   push:
diff --git a/cmake/PythonCopyStandardLib.py b/cmake/PythonCopyStandardLib.py
index d55f6c3cce6..fafbcbd3b0e 100644
--- a/cmake/PythonCopyStandardLib.py
+++ b/cmake/PythonCopyStandardLib.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 # this script must be called with two args:
 # 1 - the path to the EnergyPlus executable in the install-tree, which is used to determine where to copy the library
 #     since this is in the install-tree, you'll need to use a cmake generator expression
-# 2 - name of the folder to create to store the copied in python standard library, usually python_library
+# 2 - name of the folder to create to store the copied in python standard library, usually python_lib
 import ctypes
 import os
 import platform
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ def find_libs(dir_path):
     python_root_dir = os.path.dirname(standard_lib_dir)
     tcl_dir = os.path.join(python_root_dir, 'tcl')
     shutil.copytree(tcl_dir, target_dir, dirs_exist_ok=True)
-    
+# TODO: Need to do this on Mac as well, see the bottom of cmake/PythonFixUpOnMac.cmake for more info
+
 # then I'm going to try to clean up any __pycache__ folders in the target dir to reduce installer size
 for root, dirs, _ in os.walk(target_dir):
     for this_dir in dirs:
diff --git a/cmake/PythonFixUpOnMac.cmake b/cmake/PythonFixUpOnMac.cmake
index 615d04340a3..21c2410dc69 100644
--- a/cmake/PythonFixUpOnMac.cmake
+++ b/cmake/PythonFixUpOnMac.cmake
@@ -71,3 +71,20 @@ foreach(PREREQ IN LISTS PREREQUISITES)
     execute_process(COMMAND "install_name_tool" -change "${PREREQ}" "@loader_path/${LIB_INT_FILENAME}" "${LOCAL_PYTHON_LIBRARY}")
   endif()
 endforeach()
+
+##############3
+# we need to look into the tkinter binary's runtime dependencies, copy over the tcl and tk dylibs, update them with install_name_tool, and make sure they all get signed, like this:
+
+# libtcl
+# cp /opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib /path/to/python_lib/lib-dynload/
+# install_name_tool -change "/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib" "@loader_path/libtcl8.6.dylib" /path/to/python_lib/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-312-darwin.so
+
+# Do the same for libtk
+# cp /opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib/libtk8.6.dylib /path/to/python_lib/lib-dynload/
+# install_name_tool -change "/opt/homebrew/opt/tcl-tk/lib/libtk8.6.dylib" "@loader_path/libtk8.6.dylib" /path/to/python_lib/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-312-darwin.so
+
+# Resign _tkinter
+# codesign -vvvv -s "Developer ID Application: National ..." -f --timestamp -i "org.nrel.EnergyPlus" -o runtime /path/to/python_lib/lib-dynload/_tkinter.cpython-312-darwin.so
+# codesign -vvvv -s "Developer ID Application: National ..." -f --timestamp -i "org.nrel.EnergyPlus" -o runtime /path/to/python_lib/lib-dynload/libtcl8.6.dylib
+# codesign -vvvv -s "Developer ID Application: National ..." -f --timestamp -i "org.nrel.EnergyPlus" -o runtime /path/to/python_lib/lib-dynload/libtk8.6.dylib
+##############3
diff --git a/src/EnergyPlus/CommandLineInterface.cc b/src/EnergyPlus/CommandLineInterface.cc
index a0b1394ac74..c4d563eb07a 100644
--- a/src/EnergyPlus/CommandLineInterface.cc
+++ b/src/EnergyPlus/CommandLineInterface.cc
@@ -235,6 +235,10 @@ Built on Platform: {}
         app.add_flag("--debug-cli", debugCLI, "Print the result of the CLI assignments to the console and exit")->group(""); // Empty group to hide it
 
 #if LINK_WITH_PYTHON
+#if __APPLE__
+        // for now on Apple we are not providing the command line interface to EP-Launch due to packaging issues
+        // once that is fixed, this __APPLE__ block will be removed and we'll just have this on all platforms
+#else
         auto *auxiliaryToolsSubcommand = app.add_subcommand("auxiliary", "Run Auxiliary Python Tools");
         auxiliaryToolsSubcommand->require_subcommand(); // should default to requiring 1 or more additional args?
 
@@ -278,10 +282,11 @@ sys.argv.append("energyplus")
 from eplaunch.tk_runner import main_gui
 main_gui()
 )python";
-            std::cout << "Trying to execute this python snippet: " << std::endl << cmd << std::endl;
+            // std::cout << "Trying to execute this python snippet: " << std::endl << cmd << std::endl;
             engine.exec(cmd);
             exit(0);
         });
+#endif
 #endif
 
         app.footer("Example: energyplus -w weather.epw -r input.idf");