Mac App Shell
Creates a Mac OSX .app folder (complete with icons) ready for your binary file. Perfect for Golang, C++, Rust, or any other language that compiles to a binary file on OSX.
Usage
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Download or clone the repo.
-
Pass the name of your Application and an image file for the icon.
$ ./setup.sh MyNewApp app-icon.svg -
Then just copy the binary file into the folder
$ cp mybinary MyNewApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyNewApp
Icon formats:
The image file can be .svg (recomended), .png, .gif, .jpg, or .tiff format.
Free SVG Icons
GUI
It's recomended your .app have a GUI if you want to interact with a user (since the terminal is not shown).
Example
There is an examples folder contains a GUI example. Download an icon to use.
Go
Build the go project, run the macappshell script, and then move the go binary into the new .app folder.
cd examples/Go/
go build *.go
cd ../../
./setup.sh hello ion-quote.svg
mv example/Go/hello hello.app/Contents/MacOS
Rust
todo
C++
todo
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017 David Pennington
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Thanks to @HaoDong for his original gist.