[CMake] CPack OSX Bundles

Timothy M. Shead tshead at k-3d.com
Sat Mar 22 13:08:44 EDT 2008


> Folks:
> 
> I'm generating OSX bundles for a couple of projects with GTK and one
> with Qt dependencies.  Currently I handle everything with CMake,
> custom
> targets, and some custom shell scripts, but I'd like to get CPack to
> do
> the work.  
> 
> The OSXX11 generator is *almost* perfect, but I need some additional
> flexibility.  Basically, I'd like to provide my own replacements for
> the
> script-launcher in Contents/MacOS and the
> Contents/Resources/RuntimeScript startup script - this is to setup a
> custom environment for the GTK libs and specify some command-line
> arguments for my executables.  In the Qt case, I don't need to start
> X11
> at all, so the startup script could be considerably simplified.
> 
> Would there be any interest in a patch for the OSXX11 generator along
> these lines?  Would an entirely new generator be better?
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim

I'm a little surprised at the lack of feedback ... is this a lousy idea?
Are there existing alternatives?  I'm anxious to contribute, but I don't
want to waste my time if there's no interest ...

Many thanks,
Tim




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