[Paraview] Build .app bundle on Mac OS X

[David Cole]

I am working on this again this week...... I expect that in the near future,
creating the standalone bundle for ParaView will be part of make install and
should work on any Mac.


David


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, this worked, at least partially. I do get the .app with the
> frameworks included, but unfortunately, the install_name's of the libraries
> in the MacOS directory are the ones in the build tree, and not something
> like @executable_path/libxxx.dylib. I fixed this with:
>
> cd paraview-3.3.0/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS
> for l in *.dylib paraview; do for f in $(otool -L $l | grep
> "something_matching_your_build_dir" | awk '{print $1}'); do
> ff=@executable_path/$(basename $f); install_name_tool -change $f $ff $l;
> done; done
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On 2Apr, 2008, at 14:28, Mike Jackson wrote:
>
> > If you do a "make install" the .app bundle should be built and include
> > Qt and Python properly. There is some ongoing work to make this smoother but
> > it should work with the current cvs, although I have not tried recently.
> >
> >
> > David Cole and myself were working on some new scripts but I don't think
> > the scripts are ready for "prime time" yet. They do work on my particular
> > setup, which is OS X 10.4.11 with Qt 4.3.4 as Frameworks. Python should be
> > included on each OS X installation and there is some concern about including
> > it in the app bundle that we have not worked out yet.
> >
> > David can chime in with some more info..
> >
> > --
> > Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
> > Innovative Management & Technology Services
> >
> >
> > On Apr 2, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Michael Wild wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I have trouble building a Mac OS X app bundle of ParaView CVS.
> > >
> > > I can't seem to find any way to get CMake/CPack to include the Qt and
> > > Python frameworks in the .app bundle. However, I do not want to require that
> > > my users install a full Qt. When I download the current ParaView beta .dmg
> > > (3.2.0) and look inside paraview.app, the frameworks are included, so there
> > > must be a way to achieve this (and I hope it is not doing it manually and
> > > fixing all dependencies up with install_name_tool, that would be a pain!).
> > >
> > > I'd welcome any pointers in the right direction.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > BTW: I'm using CMake CVS.
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