Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Sunday, June 13, 2010, 12:15:06 PM, you wrote: I thought ditto was only available to Win users running the Enterprise versions with the Unix shell extras. Does XP home support it? Don't know. Or care, really. That script is for a button on the installer and runs

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Sunday, June 13, 2010, 12:15:06 PM, you wrote: > I thought ditto was only available to Win users running the Enterprise > versions with the Unix shell extras. Does XP home support it? Don't know. Or care, really. That script is for a button on the installer and runs on OSX. It's the pa

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:37:05 PM, you wrote: Zipping does work from Windows, which is what I'm doing now (with a note to the user that they have to unzip it; a drag, but I can't find a way around that. Got it. On an xp box I created an OSX standalone and zipped it. I p

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:37:05 PM, you wrote: > Zipping does work from Windows, which is what I'm doing now (with a note > to the user that they have to unzip it; a drag, but I can't find a way > around that. Got it. On an xp box I created an OSX standalone and zipped it. I put the z

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: I just copied the standalone over the network. Zipped and unzipped, both work. The hard drives of the PC I used are formatted as FAT32. Interesting. Since so many others, including Rev tech support, couldn't do this before, I wonder what accounts for the difference.

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard, I just copied the standalone over the network. Zipped and unzipped, both work. The hard drives of the PC I used are formatted as FAT32. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.c

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, June 12, 2010, 3:22:27 PM, you wrote: > H... doesn't work here, and others on this list have tried and > failed as well. > What file system is on your USB? ...had to go check... I used the rev4.0 distibution drive I got at the launch event... my Leopard machine says it's

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:37:05 PM, you wrote: Zipping does work from Windows, which is what I'm doing now (with a note to the user that they have to unzip it; a drag, but I can't find a way around that. I tried it without zipping and it worked that way, too. 1. Build ma

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:37:05 PM, you wrote: > Zipping does work from Windows, which is what I'm doing now (with a note > to the user that they have to unzip it; a drag, but I can't find a way > around that. I tried it without zipping and it worked that way, too. 1. Build mac standa

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: I've seen your posts on this subject several times now and I never thought it was a real problem. I have now actually done a test on Win XP, building a standalone on a PC, zipping it and copying it over to a Mac OS X Leopard machine. The standalone runs fine. Under which

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, June 12, 2010, 11:24:31 AM, you wrote: > Outwith the font issue I have merrily made standalones for Windows > from Mac for about 9 years. The problem Richard was (is?) having is with the other direction: creating an OSX standalone from a Windows machine. In particular, the ex

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- ...and I just did the same without zipping and it still runs. Maybe Richard's having problems with a virtual Windows image? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2010 09:21 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Mark- Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:28:35 AM, you wrote: Richard, I've seen your posts on this subject several times now and I never thought it was a real problem. I have now actually done a test on Win XP, building a standalone on a PC, z

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Saturday, June 12, 2010, 2:28:35 AM, you wrote: > Richard, > I've seen your posts on this subject several times now and I never > thought it was a real problem. I have now actually done a test on Win > XP, building a standalone on a PC, zipping it and copying it over to a > Mac OS X Leop

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mike Bonner
On the subject of creating *nix builds from windows I had a thought. How difficult would it be to setup a virtualbox linux setup with a simple script.. or even a rev app, that you feed a folder to, it will copy it in to the linux virtual, set the execution bit zip it up, and copy it back out into

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2010 12:28 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Richard, I've seen your posts on this subject several times now and I never thought it was a real problem. I have now actually done a test on Win XP, building a standalone on a PC, zipping it and copying it over to a Mac OS X Leopard machine. Th

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard, I've seen your posts on this subject several times now and I never thought it was a real problem. I have now actually done a test on Win XP, building a standalone on a PC, zipping it and copying it over to a Mac OS X Leopard machine. The standalone runs fine. Under which circumst

Re: So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-11 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2010 05:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: ...if that system is Linux. Earlier here we discussed the difficulty of making Mac builds from other OSes, and at the time we were focused on Windows. I just ran this simple test on Ubuntu 10.04: 1. Make a Mac standalone 2. Zipped it 3. Copied th

So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

2010-06-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
...if that system is Linux. Earlier here we discussed the difficulty of making Mac builds from other OSes, and at the time we were focused on Windows. I just ran this simple test on Ubuntu 10.04: 1. Make a Mac standalone 2. Zipped it 3. Copied the Zip file via USB drive (FAT16, FWIW) to my Ma