Steve King wrote:
I know nothing at all of Macs....
I have Rev Studio (windows) and in the standalone builder there is a Mac
(OSX) tab and when I build my Windows Standalone, I also get a Mac folder.
Is this a Mac standlone of any type? If so, how is it used. What is OSX?
"OSX" is a misspelling of "OS X" ("OS version 10"), the Mac operating
system Apple ships with their computers.
I never build for Macs, it just happens in the club this application is for
there is one Mac user. All the rest are windows users.
Unfortunately, Apple's Unix core will require an extra step to deploy there:
The folder you see is what Apple calls a "bundle", and contains all the
parts and pieces the app needs to run, things that are embedded into a
single file on Windows.
Within the bundle at this path:
/<bundlename>.app/Contents/MacOS/<exename>
...where it says <exename> you'll find the actual executable. But since
it was generated from Windows it has no executable bit, which Unix-based
file systems need to run a file as an executable.
To make the app runnnable you'll need to copy the *.app bundle to a Mac,
then on the Mac use Terminal to change the permissions on the executable
using chmod.
If there's an easier way to generate Mac standalones from Windows I
haven't found it.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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