For Mac: I suggest you take a look at: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/IanClark/iCan
It may suit your purpose, like it does for many of mine (i.e. for something that looks like an app you can fire-up from the Dock) -- but maybe not if you want to sell your executable. Then you will have to bundle-up a cut-down J installation, your script and everything else you need into a single folder which the Mac allows you to turn into an app. With a bit of imagination you'll see how to do that from the above link. You know of course that you can look inside any Mac app as if it were a folder by: right-click > Show Package Contents It helps to examine someone else's professional-looking app. You can download for free: Mstat 5.4 from: http://www.mcardle.wisc.edu/mstat/download/download.html Most instructive when you look inside it. DISCLAIMER: please don't take this as an invitation to reverse-engineer Mstat without permission or acknowledgement. 2011/11/2 David Vaughan <[email protected]>: > So how would I go about doing it? (Mac and Windows). > > ___________________________ > > David Vaughan > > On 29 Oct 2011, at 11:53, Björn Helgason <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It depends on the os >> >> In linux you can make a file executable >> >> In windows you can create a bat file >> >> >> >> 2011/10/29 David Vaughan <[email protected]> >> >>> How can an executable be made from J, assuming it is possible? >>> >>> ___________________________ >>> >>> David Vaughan >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur >> Fornustekkum II >> 781 Hornafirði, >> t-póst: [email protected] >> gsm: +3546985532 >> twitter: @flugfiskur >> http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming >> >> >> Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans >> >> góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum >> /|_ .-----------------------------------. >> ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | >> ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | >> / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | >> ( -. | `-----------------------------------' >> | ) | (\_ _/) >> (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ >> `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
