[SDL] making a macos x app

Bradley Bell btb at icculus.org
Thu May 29 12:03:00 PDT 2003


Quoting David Olofson <david at olofson.net>:

> On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06.29, Bradley Bell wrote:
> > Can anybody point me to a HOWTO or other FM on creating a
> > self-contained .app file from an SDL program?
> 
> I'm not on OS X mysef, but I think Kobo Deluxe sort of gets it right. 
> The autotools scripts hook into the 'install' target to build the 
> .app, picking the files out of the (temporary) Un*x style install 
> tree. The Win32 "bundle" is built in a similar way.
> 
> I've considered wiring in a default that builds that temporary tree in 
> some temp dir, since you normally don't have write access to the 
> default autotools paths, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

Thanks, I've kind of got it now.  I wonder if these "hooks" will be integrated
into automake at some point...

-brad






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