Building OSX App Bundle

Question

Suppose I have have made a an osX app without using Xcode. After compiling with GCC I get an executable which is linked to several other libraries. Some of those libraries m

Answer 1

I use this in my Makefile... It creates an app bundle. Read it and understand it, because you'll need a png icon file in a macosx/ folder along with the PkgInfo and Info.plist files i include here...

"it works on my computer"... I use this for multiple apps on Mavericks...

APPNAME=MyApp
APPBUNDLE=$(APPNAME).app
APPBUNDLECONTENTS=$(APPBUNDLE)/Contents
APPBUNDLEEXE=$(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/MacOS
APPBUNDLERESOURCES=$(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/Resources
APPBUNDLEICON=$(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/Resources
appbundle: macosx/$(APPNAME).icns
    rm -rf $(APPBUNDLE)
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)/Contents
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)/Contents/MacOS
    mkdir $(APPBUNDLE)/Contents/Resources
    cp macosx/Info.plist $(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/
    cp macosx/PkgInfo $(APPBUNDLECONTENTS)/
    cp macosx/$(APPNAME).icns $(APPBUNDLEICON)/
    cp $(OUTFILE) $(APPBUNDLEEXE)/$(APPNAME)

macosx/$(APPNAME).icns: macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png
    rm -rf macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset
    mkdir macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset
    sips -z 16 16     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_16x16.png
    sips -z 32 32     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_16x16@2x.png
    sips -z 32 32     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_32x32.png
    sips -z 64 64     macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_32x32@2x.png
    sips -z 128 128   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_128x128.png
    sips -z 256 256   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_128x128@2x.png
    sips -z 256 256   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_256x256.png
    sips -z 512 512   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_256x256@2x.png
    sips -z 512 512   macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png --out macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_512x512.png
    cp macosx/$(APPNAME)Icon.png macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset/icon_512x512@2x.png
    iconutil -c icns -o macosx/$(APPNAME).icns macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset
    rm -r macosx/$(APPNAME).iconset

Info.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
    <string>English</string>
    <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
    <string>MyApp</string>
    <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
    <string>0.48.2, Copyright 2013 my company</string>
    <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
    <string>MyApp.icns</string>
    <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
    <string>com.mycompany.MyApp</string>
    <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
    <array>
    </array>
    <key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
    <string>6.0</string>
    <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
    <string>APPL</string>
    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>0.48.2</string>
    <key>CFBundleSignature</key>
    <string>MyAp</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>0.48.2</string>
    <key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
    <string>Copyright 2013 my company.</string>
    <key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
    <string>10.3</string>
</dict>
</plist>

PkgInfo

APPLMyAp