Re: [science-iwg] Bioclipse - Building Mac OS X installer

[Ola Spjuth <ola.spjuth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Sorry for late reply, I am on partial parental leave this spring and this email got lost. We use an Apple computer to generate the dmg since we had access to one and this was the most convenient way. Let me know if you need more info how we set it up.

Another question: Has anyone been able to build a Windows release with installer for both 32 and 64 bit systems? If so, could you give us any hints how to achieve this?

Best wishes,

Ola

On 2 jan 2013, at 15:35, Philip Wenig <philip.wenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Torkild,
> 
> thanks for the links. The create dmg script utilizes Apple Script and hdiutil too. Hence, I was wondering if there is no open source equivalent to hdiutil under Linux. It would be fantastic to build *.pkg or *.dmg completely without having a Mac. Anyhow, the links are a good starting point.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Philip
> 
> Am 02.01.2013 10:39, schrieb Torkild U. Resheim:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 2. jan. 2013 kl. 08:08 skrev Philip Wenig <philip.wenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 
>>> Hi Ola,
>>> 
>>> congrats to your latest Bioclipse release!
>>> I also recognized, that you offer a native *.dmg installer for Mac OS X. How has it been created? Is there a need to use the "hdiutil" directly on a Mac or is it also possible to create the installer e.g. under Linux?
>> Strictly speaking an installer for OS X are *.pkg files. These are only required when doing system modifications. *.dmg files on the other hand are simply disk images. There is a nice utility for creating these here: https://github.com/andreyvit/yoursway-create-dmg
>>> Until now, I was able to create installers for Microsoft Windows but I didn't found a way to create a *.dmg for Mac OS X. Aside from the fact that Mac OS X and Java 7 is really painful. Would it be also possible to bundle a suitable Java 7 JRE with the distributed RCP? I have no experience with such things.
>> There is no problem with bundling a JRE with the application, however you'll have a problem when doing p2 update and also need to update the JRE on Windows(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=300812). If you're using Tycho there is a method described here http://codeiseasy.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/including-a-jre-in-a-tycho-build/
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Philip
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