Building OSX App Bundle

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Suppose I have have made a an osX app without using Xcode. After compiling with GCC I get an executable which is linked to several other libraries. Some of those libraries might again be dynamically linked to other non-standard system libraries

Is there any tool which exists which makes an OSX App bundle by first making the required directory structures and then recursively copying/checking/fixing links to make sure all the dynamic dependencies are also in the app bundle?

I guess I can try writing something like this but I was wondering if something like this exists already.

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The simplest solution is: create once an Xcode project without changing anything (i.e. keep the simple one-window app that Xcode creates for you), build it, and copy the bundle it created for you. Then, edit the files (notably the Info.plist) to suit your content, and put your own binary in the Contents/MacOS/ directory.

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A workaround to have the menu work on Mac with wxWidget code is to simply:

  1. Start the program in a terminal as usual (./appname)
  2. The program GUI starts as normal, and click the terminal to have the app lose focus
  3. Click the GUI to regain focus and the menu items work.

I agree that an app bundle is the correct way to build a program on a Mac. This is just a simple workaround for help during debugging.

Edit: This is on Mac Catalina, wxWidgets 3.1.4, with g++ 4.2.1 (Nov 2020)

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