Hey Dodger, I'm with Mike at Donor.com -- I maintain the script he just shared with y'all, so ping me with any questions. It does a whole lot of things, and you might only need to understand a few bits of it to make one that works for you.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Mike Schroeder<m...@donor.com> wrote: > I've attached our build_osx.sh script that will build a .app and package it > as a DMG. We chose to include Perl and all the Wx libs rather than trying > to rely on any existing libraries on a machine. It makes the install file > fibber, but much more reliable. > > For linux, we use makeself (http://megastep.org/makeself/) and for Windows, > we use Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php). > > These build "launchers" for the various platforms that contain all the > platform specific binaries, etc. Each launcher can then fetch all the Pure > Perl wxPerl code for the actual frames and dialogs using somethign like > LWP->mirror() as collections of PAR files. > > Hope that helps. > > Mike. > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Dodger <el.dodg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 2008/11/10 Mike Schroeder <m...@donor.com>: >> > Are you asking about how to write a wxPerl application for OS X? or how >> > to >> > package up a wxPerl application as a .app file and distribute it in a >> > dmg? >> > We have a shell script that helps us build the .app and bundle it up as >> > a >> > dmg that we can share if that is what you are asking. >> >> Well, I was mostly asking the latter. However, if there's anything >> special I have to do regarding the former, that'd be good to know, >> too. >> >> (I know how to make a DMG or PKG of course, it's just the "what all is >> expected in the .app directory, and so on) >> >> -- >> Dodger > >
