[CMake] Bundle Generator conflicts with MACOSX_BUNDLE

Timothy M. Shead tshead at k-3d.com
Sat Nov 1 23:29:36 EDT 2008


Mike Arthur wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2008 16:18:51 Timothy M. Shead wrote:
>> Of course, you still have to provide a mechanism so the executable can
>> be located when your user double-clicks your bundle.  That's where
>> CPACK_BUNDLE_STARTUP_COMMAND comes-in ... it copies a bundle-specific
>> file into the Contents/MacOS directory.  That file could be a symlink to
>> the actual executable, or a startup script.  Note that it is *never*
>> intended to be the executable itself.
> Ah, ok, this wasn't fully understood. Can you suggest how I might make this a 
> symlink? Just manually create a relative one and pass it to 
> CPACK_BUNDLE_STARTUP_COMMAND?

That's the (untested) idea - although it occurs to me that the copy
command may try to copy the symlink target instead of the link itself.

Cheers,
Tim


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