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Overview ¶

Package main is a sample macOS-app-bundling program to demonstrate how to automate the process described in this tutorial:

https://medium.com/@mattholt/packaging-a-go-application-for-macos-f7084b00f6b5

Bundling the .app is the first thing it does, and creating the DMG is the second. Making the DMG is optional, and is only done if you provide the template DMG file, which you have to create beforehand.

Example use:

$ go run macapp.go \
	-assets ./folder_with_binary_and_any_resources \
	-bin yourbinary \
	-icon ./appicon1024.png \
	-identifier com.example.whatever
	-name "My App"
	-dmg "My App template.dmg" \
	-o ~/Desktop

You may use this whole program or bits and pieces for whatever you want, but it comes without warranty or support -- I have no idea what I'm doing, as it is, so don't ask me. Sorry. But feel free to learn from it; it's a pretty minimal automation of the whole process for simple, single-binary applications that aren't native Cocoa, and I think I would have found this helpful to have when I was trying to figure it out.

NOTE: This program *very likely has obvious bugs*. Feel free to suggest improvements to this gist and comment below, but I don't make any guarantees; it worked for me and you're on your own beyond that.

I learned from these pages/posts - thanks, whomever you may be: - https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/PortingUnix/distributing/distibuting.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002855-TPXREF101 - https://github.com/Xeoncross/macappshell - https://el-tramo.be/blog/fancy-dmg/ - https://github.com/remko/fancy-dmg/blob/master/Makefile - https://github.com/shurcooL/trayhost