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

A workaround to have the menu work on Mac with wxWidget code is to simply:

1. Start the program in a terminal as usual (./appname)
2. The program GUI starts as normal, and click the terminal to have the app lose focus
3. Click the GUI to regain focus and the menu items work.

I agree that an app bundle is the correct way to build a program on a Mac. This is just a simple workaround for help during debugging.

Edit: This is on Mac Catalina, wxWidgets 3.1.4, with g++ 4.2.1 (Nov 2020)