[PD] Building Pd App on OSX

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 07/06/2013 05:22 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> What I do (in effect):
>
> Get an existing Pd application

As in download one of your prebuilt mac binaries?

-Jonathan

> and remove all the Pd sources
> (Contents/Resources/src, bin, doc, tcl, portaudio, portmidi, extra, *.txt)
>
> then un-tar a source tarball into Contrnts/Resources, cd to src, and
> make -f makefile.mac
>
> (Actually, of course, I do this from a script.  I have a pre-prepared
> tarball of an empty Pd app, and using that and a source tarball I run
> this shell file: )
>
> -------------
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #usage: ./build 0.38-0 or 0.38-0test4
>
> if test x$1 == x
> then
>     echo usage: ./build 0.38-0 or 0.38-0test4
>     exit 1
> fi
>
> if test -d Pd-$1.app
> then
>      chmod -R 777 Pd-$1.app
>      rm -rf Pd-$1.app
> fi
>
> tar xzf attic/wish-shell.tgz
> mv "Wish Shell.app" Pd-$1.app
> cd Pd-$1.app/Contents
> chmod 755 .
> rm -f Info.plist
> cp -p  ../../attic/Info.plist .
> cd MacOS
> chmod 755 .
> mv "Wish Shell" Pd
> cd ..
> cd Resources
> chmod 755 .
> rm -f Wish.icns
> cp -p ../../../attic/pd.icns ../../../attic/pd-file.icns .
> mv "Wish Shell.rsrc" Pd.rsrc
> tar xzf ../../../pd-$1.src.tar.gz
> mv pd-$1/* .
> rmdir pd-$1
> cd src
> make -f makefile.mac
> cd ..
> ln -s tcl Scripts
> chmod 555 . ..
> cd ../../..
> pwd
> chmod 755 Pd-$1.app
> touch Pd-$1.app
> chmod 555 Pd-$1.app
> tar czf pd-$1.mac.tar.gz Pd-$1.app
>
> ------------
>
> cheers
> M
>
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 07:00:48PM -0400, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> Miller et al,
>>       Once I get Pd built on OSX, I can make install so that "pd"
>> from the terminal will launch it.
>>
>> But how do I make it into an App?  Any hints?  INSTALL.txt doesn't
>> have anything.
>>
>> I'd like to get it building so that a) I can make use of all the
>> goodies someone put into
>> AppMain.tcl and b) post a working copy so people can try out the new
>> Preferences dialog.
>>
>> Separate question: even for running "pd" from the terminal, why
>> doesn't the AppMain.tcl stuff
>> get used?  For example, I still want to use the OSX "Preferences"
>> panel, and set all the Apple
>> specific stuff like "About Pd" in the App menu, regardless of how pd
>> was started.  (Though it's
>> not a huge deal, as the vast majority would just be running the app.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
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