Re: [gtk+osx] Working .app bundles

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Jan 5, 2004, at 5:50 PM, John-Michael Mulesa wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jan 5, 2004, at 4:20 PM, John-Michael Mulesa wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone here know how to make a gtk-osx .app bundle program 
>>>> double clickable? Right now you still have to run it from terminal, 
>>>> because if you double click it, it immediately quits and outputs 
>>>> this to the console (GIMP - OSX in this case):
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, this is a quick hack, but change main to something like this:
>>>
>>> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>>>     if (argc == 2 && strncmp(argv[1], "-psn", 4) == 0) argc = 1;
>>>     /* rest of code */
>>> }
>>>
>>> argv is used for something else when launching .app bundles (passing 
>>> in a process serial number).  Opening files or printing is actually 
>>> done by an 'odoc' event post-launch, not with argv.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you can change the Info.plist to use a different 
>>> executable (can even be a python script, so long as its +x and you 
>>> don't need 10.1 compat) whose sole purpose is to swallow the 
>>> "extraneous" arguments and then execve the actual process.
>> And here's an example.. to get the demo "gimp 1.2" app bundle to run 
>> by double clicking:
>> cd /Applications/gimp-1.2.app/Contents/MacOS
>> mv gimp-1.2 gimp-1.2-executable
>> create a gimp-1.2 file that looks like this:
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> import sys, os
>> if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1].startswith('-psn'):
>>     sys.argv = sys.argv[1:]
>> os.execve(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), 
>> os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])+'-executable'), sys.argv[:1], 
>> os.environ)
>> chmod +x gimp-1.2
> I made the file, but it doesn't want to run (did do chmod +x):
>
> /Users/jm/Desktop/gimp-1.2.app/Contents/MacOS/gimp-1.2: Command not 
> found.
>
> When I try to run it.

In theory, I guess that can happen if you don't have Python.  Maybe you 
don't have the BSD subsystem installed?  Otherwise you should have it, 
because it's been a standard part of the BSD subsystem since OS X 10.2.

-bob