Hi all,
I have a need to build appbundles on the mac, but was finding the
PerlWrapper process a bit lacking when in comes to fitting into
dotReader's automated cross-platform build system.
Introducing the Module::Build::Plugins::MacBundle and ExtUtils::MacMaker
modules.
http://scratchcomputing.com/svn/Module-Build-Plugins-MacBundle/trunk
This was only started a few days ago, so I'm still in the process of
defining how we control the behavior for variations on the build.
Currently, it takes the first thing (in glob order) out of your bin/
directory or whatever is explicit as "main_pl_file => 'foo'" in your
Build->new parameters.
It uses Module::ScanDeps to bundle all of your dependencies and
otool/install_name_tool to discover and rewrite all of the references
in a bundled libperl.dylib and any .bundle dependencies and
related .dylibs. By default, the resultant appbundle will run on an
os-x without perl.
I'm building on 10.4.8 and have tested the resultant .app on a bare
10.3.9 mac.
It was a huge headache to figure out how to get it to play nice with the
finder. I will never forgive apple for the last couple days of
searching their documentation and unnecessarily convoluted C hacking
just to get hold of what should be in argv[1]. Currently, this ignores
argv, so doesn't work from the command line. I think that could be
fixed by looking at the "looks like a process number" -p4558 (or
whatever it is) and changing behavior based on that, but this is meant
to work with the gui more than with the command line, so that's pretty
low priority for me.
In any case, now you can get the filename(s?) that the user selected or
dropped on your app as long as your main_pl_file includes a
main::main() sub. If you don't have main::main, the behavior is the
same as the old PerlWrapper.
Documentation is a bit sparse for now. Please see the demo directory in
the repository, read the code, and/or poke around in the resultant
blib/macbuild/build/Default/YourAppName.app.
If someone is interested in using ExtUtils::MacMaker for a different
build system or some command-line tools, I would love to hear about it.
Anyone with more Mac/C experience than me might find some atrocities in
main.c, etc. Please send patches.
Thanks,
Eric
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