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> On Mar 18, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Karl Moskowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 18, 2015, at 3:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> I’m trying out making a Foundation command-line tool. I added a bundle 
>> identifier string when creating the project, but I don’t see it anywhere, as 
>> if there’s no Info.plist. Are (Foundation) tools created by Xcode flat 
>> files, like traditional Unix tools? Or are they bundles? If flat files, can 
>> they be made into bundles with some project tweaks?
> 
> There’s a project/target setting to embed the Info.plist in a text segment of 
> a flat binary. Add an Info.plist to your project, set the “Info.plist File” 
> setting for the target, and enable the “Create Info.plist Section in Binary” 
> setting.
> 
> IIRC this was added to support code signing of tools. Until a few years ago, 
> there was no UI for it; you had to add a flag manually. There’s more info at 
> Red Sweater’s blog.
> http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2083/the-power-of-plist

This really helped, even though I had to figure out the exact settings myself. 
Thank you.

You can see how I did it by looking at the “0.1” release of the project at 
<https://github.com/CTMacUser/cget>.

— 
Daryle Walker
Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
darylew AT mac DOT com 

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