Re: Distributing Renaissance/GNUstep app's on OS X

[Fletcher T. Penney]

Uli Kusterer wrote:

> > ( I am using the Ink.app example, so the binary file is Ink.app/Ink
>
>
>  That sounds screwy. The binary should be at Ink.app/Contents/MacOS/Ink.

When built by make, that was where it put the binary...  It did NOT put 
it in Contents/MacOS/Ink, with an alias at Ink.app/Ink...  Perhaps a 
difference between make, and using Xcode??

Other projects built with Xcode DO place the binary inside 
Contents/MacOS....

Go figure...


>  Ummm... the *binaries* won't run on GNUstep. First the Mac version of 
> Renaissance.framework links against Cocoa.framework, while on GNUstep 
> you'd link against GNUstep.framework or something like that. Second, the 
> executable format for Linux applications is not Mach-O. I think most of 
> them use ELF, and anyway, most of them run on x86 (or Pentium 
> <something>) CPUs.

I never suggested running the binaries crossplatform, just that the code 
would be cross-platform.  I specifically mentioned that the code (and 
the framework) would have to compiled for the specific machine they 
would be run on.


In any event, I got it working, and will just have to keep in mind that 
the binary is located differently when built by make as compared to 
XCode.  It seems as though the XCode method is correct, which will 
require making the changes as displayed on the web site, NOT my 
corrected version.

Alternatively, instead of making my changes, you could put the binary in 
Contents/MacOS and put an symlink as a placeholder inside the bundle...

Is this a known issue with simply building via GNUmakefile and make??

Thanks again for the pointers to the original web site!

F-


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