Building OSX App Bundle

Question

Suppose I have have made a an osX app without using Xcode. After compiling with GCC I get an executable which is linked to several other libraries. Some of those libraries m

Answer 1

I use this in my Makefile... It creates an app bundle. Read it and understand it, because you'll need a png icon file in a macosx/ folder along with the PkgInfo and Info.plist files i include here...

"it works on my computer"... I use this for multiple apps on Mavericks...

APPNAME=MyApp
APPBUNDLE=$(APPNAME).app
APPBUNDLECONTENTS=$(APPBUNDLE)/Contents
APPBUNDLEEXE=$(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/MacOS
APPBUNDLERESOURCES=$(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/Resources
APPBUNDLEICON=$(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/Resources
appbundle: macosx/$(APPNAME).icns
    rm -rf $(APPBUNDLE)
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)/Contents
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)/Contents/MacOS
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)/Contents/Resources
    cp macosx/Info.plist $(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/
    cp macosx/PkgInfo $(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/
    cp macosx/$(APPNAME).icns $(APPBUNDLEICON)/
    cp $(OUTFILE) $(APPBUNDLEEXE)/$(APPNAME)

macosx/$(APPNAME).icns: macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png
    rm -rf macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset
    mkdir macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset
    sips -z 16 16     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_16x16.png
    sips -z 32 32     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_16x16@2x.png
    sips -z 32 32     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_32x32.png
    sips -z 64 64     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_32x32@2x.png
    sips -z 128 128   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_128x128.png
    sips -z 256 256   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_128x128@2x.png
    sips -z 256 256   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_256x256.png
    sips -z 512 512   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_256x256@2x.png
    sips -z 512 512   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_512x512.png
    cp macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_512x512@2x.png
    iconutil -c icns -o macosx/$(APPNAME).icns macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset
    rm -r macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset

Info.plist

    CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
    English
    CFBundleExecutable
    MyApp
    CFBundleGetInfoString
    0.48.2, Copyright 2013 my company
    CFBundleIconFile
    MyApp.icns
    CFBundleIdentifier
    com.mycompany.MyApp
    CFBundleDocumentTypes
    
    
    CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
    6.0
    CFBundlePackageType
    APPL
    CFBundleShortVersionString
    0.48.2
    CFBundleSignature
    MyAp
    CFBundleVersion
    0.48.2
    NSHumanReadableCopyright
    Copyright 2013 my company.
    LSMinimumSystemVersion
    10.3

PkgInfo

APPLMyAp