I am new to MAC environment.
Is there any way that I can convert classic MAC app file so that it can be read on MAC OS X?
Also, is there any good tutorial for how to write .app file for a JAVA application.
Thanks
Support for classic mode ( runs older mac software was dropped with 10.5). If you search for classic mode you can find some emulators/virtual machines which may run classic apps. I have not tried any of these.
.app is not a file format. It is actually a directory with a defined structure. If you show contents on an app from finder, you can browse this contents of the directory.
As for putting an jar file in an .app bundle, check the help for Jar Bundler. It is included with XCode and can be found under Developer/Applications/Utilites. This utility turns a jar app into a .app bundle.
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I am completely new to Mac OS and I have an application written in .Net Core codebase. Now all I want is to get it installed on Mac OS machines. My question is how can I create an installer (.DMG) file? At the moment My Visual Studio on Windows has created a .dll file with all other dependencies in the folder. Also for now most of the configuration values I have hard-coded but in the release build it has to be chosen by an end-user. So how can I prompt them for required directories? If you can provide me a link for documentation tool or any kind of suggestion would be greatly appreciated. At the moment if I want to run my application on Mac I have to use Terminal and then dotnet myApplication.dll in order to run application. My end goal would be to ask user for all required file paths and at the end create a System level Daemon (similar to windows service) to keep it always Alive. Would Xcode help in this situation? I already tried to open my .Net core project using xcode but it failed to load saying unsupported proect type.
Thanking in advance for your help!
If you wanted to use the standard macOS Installer to distribute your .net Core app, you would need to create a .pkg file. There seem to be ways to do this on the console or with Third Party Tools
sudo pkgbuild -install-location /Applications -component /path/to/your/application ./Desktop/YourPackage.pkg
There is an older manpage for pkgbuild, or you can try running man pkgbuild on your Mac.
I haven't tried this, but creating a .pkg is the normal way to install stuff on a Mac for applications where you can't just drag/drop the .app into the Application folder. (macOS applications are actually Directories with a special structure)
A .DMG is just a disk image - it doesn't "do" anything, it's just a container for files. You can create one with Disk Utility.
I have build a flat package installer (meaning it is just a single pkg file) for Mac. Normally Mac installers are distributed inside a disk image (dmg) file. I know how to create a dmg file containing the pkg file, but I am wondering if this is necessary. Is there are reason why it is better to distribute the installer inside a disk image?
Mac applications are often distributed as DMG, but that was mostly because Mac .app bundles are really a directory tree, not a single file. If you have a single-file .pkg, it is probably fine to distribute as-is.
Note: in earlier versions of OS X this was true of .pkg also, but it has not been the case for some time, .pkg are now single file xar archives.
I am new to developing for the Mac OS X.
What's best place for storing the demo files of application on Mac OS X?
What's best practices?
I suggest the "/Library/Application Support" directory, which the documentation defines as: -
The Application Support directory is where your app stores any type of file that supports the app but is not required for the app to run, such as document templates or configuration files. The files should be app-specific but should never store user data.
I have an exe setup file. I want to make it compatible with Mac OS. Is there is any way through which we can convert an EXE to DMG, APP or a Jar?
No, you cant, you need to recompile the application for the target platform.
Nope*.
Moreover, if the contained software is compiled for Windows, it won't work on Mac.
If may work only if it is script-based (like in ruby, python, etc.). But usually, you'll have a proper Mac installation package when it is compatible.
**Exception*: some EXE are extractible archives, but it won't change the incompatibility if it is compiled for Windows.
The simple answer is to install software on a Macintosh OS you must recompile it down to a .dmg file. I jumped on Google and this article Creating a Mac OS X App from a Jar File was the second choice. The default Mac OS Java version was 1.5 for Leopard. Target 1.4+ and you should cover systems from at least Leopard and upwards.
As an aside, this tutorial was recently updated for Snow Leopard and covers the same stuff. Best of luck in getting it ported.
There are different distribution for Mac with have java6 and below version, for java 7 and 8 you need to make another app to run and compatible with
I did it on my way:
Create exe/ setup for your jar.
follow the link ---> winebottler.kronenberg.org
download winebottler(GUI based tool) for your mac type and simply follow this link below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imPGlqEuYBk
No extra burden for you to how.
Note: This will pack your setup in app but app size will increase.
I downloaded an App and it contained an *.rsd file. What's that?
Not knowing which App you downloaded, I'd guess it's probably a RealSQLDatabase file, which is used by REALBasic applications.
You could see what file has to say.