9.3 Creating a Mac OS X application bundle

The section applies only to users of LispWorks for Macintosh.

The example script in Preparing for delivery will create an executable on your Mac OS X system and you can build your non-GUI programs like that.

However, you should not simply run a Mac OS X/Cocoa GUI application from the command line in Terminal.app. Instead you should put the image in a suitable Application Bundle and run it using the Finder.

Your LispWorks Library contains example code which constructs a suitable Mac OS X application bundle for your delivered image. The function write-macos-application-bundle does several things:

• creates the folders comprising an Application Bundle
• adds the resources from a supplied template bundle (or LispWorks.app ) to the Application Bundle
• writes a suitable Info.plist file in the Application Bundle
• returns the path of the executable within the Application Bundle

9.3.1 Example application bundle delivery script

9.3.2 Further Mac OS X delivery examples