Re: [DotGNU]Standalone portable.net apps Mac OS X

[Brandon Bremen]

Sorry for not being clear on the python stuff. I should have mentioned 
how bash shell scripts work. If you are familiar to windows, the script 
I gave as an example is kind of like a dos batch script (The scripts 
ending in .bat) but a lot more useful. The ilrunw would not depend on 
python in anyway. I just wanted to show you how another project solved 
your same problem.

On Tuesday, January 20, 2004, at 01:21 AM, Andrew Edwardson wrote:

> Thanks to everybody for replying to this
>
> I am very new to the Mac and Unix so sorry for my ignorance but you
> basically have to recompile ilrun to create a bundle?
No, you simply have to wrap a copy of ilrun in a MacOS bundle. that way 
the OS thinks its just a normal application.

> Argg! I don't know Python either. Here's what I think is happening. I
> just googled and looked at something else for TkWindows or something...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /Applications/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python $@
>
> Assuming I was running a python script to get my ilrun to work. (I need
> to use python right?) (Or could I write a native stub C++ program on 
> the
> Mac to do all this?)

This is a shell script. that "#!/bin/sh" at the top describes what 
interpreter to use. All scripts in Unix land use this script format. I 
was using pythonw as an example of another project's solution to your 
mac window problems. And yes, you could use a C program or anything 
else to execute the bundle from the command line. You could even run 
the bundle directly from a command-line like this, "open ilrun.app 
test.exe" on the mac.

> Anyway assuming a Python script runs this stuff and all my programs are
> in the right paths...
>
> #!/bin/sh
> Exec /Applications/ilrun.app/Contents/MacOS/ilrun $@
>
> I assume the $@ is the command line ?

No, the "$@" passes any command line arguments along. This is a shell 
script, and that is the cmd line argument variable that most (if not 
all) /bin/sh shells use. Otherwise, yes, thats how you would do it.

> So if my Python script was called ilrunw and my harness C# exe is 
> called
> testqt.exe ...
>
> Then-> ilrunw testqt.exe
>
> Would do it?
That is correct. Or, you could easily make a file association on the 
mac so you could double-click your testqt.exe if you so choose.

> Regards
> Andy

Hope that helps!

Brandon