The best way to make an application (MacOSX) bundle from CB?

[bnilsson]

Hi!

What would be the preferred way to make an application bundle for MacOSX from CB?
Sometimes it is not enough to make it run by double-click (I have seen how to do this elsewhere), there may also be a lot of housekeeping in the Contents/Resources folder with rsrc's, Info.plist, InfoPlist.strings, Icons, nib's, etc.
I suspect it would be handled by scripts in pre/post build steps, but maybe I missed some other ingenious way out there?

[dmoore]

you need to look into some sort of package/installation management tool for the Mac. ideally, a distributable package will be a single compressed binary file containing binaries and setup info (like an msi on windows or a deb on debian based systems) that the OS on the target machine can use to deploy the necessary files and associations in standard folders.

[afb]

It's not impossible to create and include the necessary files and directories, the "single compressed binary file" is then done as a disk image (.dmg) with the application bundle inside.

However, it is tedious to set this up for every project. One very nice approach is taken by e.g. the Allegro library, that has a helper program called "fixbundle" that automates this ?

https://alleg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/alleg/allegro/branches/4.2/tools/macosx/fixbundle.c

[bnilsson]

However, it is tedious to set this up for every project. One very nice approach is taken by e.g. the Allegro library, that has a helper program called "fixbundle" that automates this ?

https://alleg.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/alleg/allegro/branches/4.2/tools/macosx/fixbundle.c

Thanks, it looks very interesting, I will try it!

[bnilsson]

I tried it and it worked beautifully.
Thanks!


However, it did not compile as-shown without the complete allegro library, so I installed it.
Maybe I'll try to make it stand-alone later.