Mark Swindell wrote:
That's seems a ridiculously obtuse process. Not doubting it, but couldn't the
application builder be made to take care of this?
Mark
I agree that it's way more work than would be desirable, but we
discussed this here in a thread a couple months back related to a
multi-platform installer I was making and we couldn't come up with a
simpler solution.
The outcome of that thread was that ultimately this is a difference in
file system capabilities, and not something Rev can address. You simply
can't set the Unix executable bit from Windows, since the Win file
system has no such property.
If someone comes up with a way to do it I'd be very happy to learn it,
but last time we explored it here we came up empty.
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On May 19, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
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.
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