Re: packaging for Mac (was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: password help)

[Marcus Lines]

In the category of not reinventing the wheel; here is what the mozilla  
developer page says ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en/ 
Build_and_Install ).  I have xcode on my macbook pro & there is a  
developer application called package builder. Mac OS X has Apple  
Script that could be used to script the build process & automator  
which is a gui that can be used to develop the apple script code.

-Marcus

Mac OS X
On Macintosh, the build system produces an application bundle at  
objdir/dist/AppName.app, for example objdir/dist/Minefield.app.

Please note that when you are building with --enable-debug, the  
application is placed in objdir/dist/AppNameDebug.app, e.g. objdir/ 
dist/MinefieldDebug.app.

You can run the application by either opening the application bundle  
via the Finder, or from the command line using

$ objdir/dist/AppName[Debug].app/Contents/MacOS/appname
for instance

$ objdir/dist/MinefieldDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
Building a .dmg for a XULRunner build
These instructions are for building a .dmg file from a Mac OS X  
Universal binary build.

        • Perform a Universal Binary Build
	• Create a chown_root.c and chown_revert.c source files from  
mxr:chown_root.c and mxr:chown_revert.c
	• Use gcc to compile these files somewhere: gcc -o chown_root  
chown_root.c and gcc -o chown_revert chown_revert.c
	• Set the correct permissions on the files: sudo chown root  
chown_root chown_revert and sudo chmod a+s chown_root chown_revert
	• cd to «objdir»/«arch»/xulrunner/installer and issue make  
CHOWN_ROOT=«absolute_path_to_your_chown_root_binary»  
CHOWN_REVERT=«absolute_path_to_your_chown_revert_binary»
This should build a binary at «arch»/dist.

On Jun 23, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:

> Am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 23:28:32 schrieb Marcus Lines:
> > A dmg package is much more Mac OS X like.  A Doctor who uses a Mac  
> > has
> > made a decision to use a Mac because he or she likes the way that OS
> > works.
> Is there any way to script the build process ? If so please provide  
> pointers.
>
> Sebastian
>
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