macOS - commandline for UseAppBundle

[Jonny]

I use the LCL but without Lazarus as my IDE and (cross)-compile from the command line.

Cross-compiling from Linux to macOS (-Tdarwin -Px86_64 -dLCLcocoa) works well.

But I cannot produce an app bundle from any fpc command-line option that I have tried.

Lazarus has the UseAppBundle option in the project.lpi file to enable creating an app bundle:

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1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2. <CONFIG>
3.   <ProjectOptions>
4.     <General>
5.       <UseAppBundle Value="True"/>
6.     </General>
7.   </ProjectOptions>
8. </CONFIG>
9.  

Is there an fpc / ppc command line option that will build the app bundle, not just the executable?

[trev]

There is a command line tool to create app bundles. Open /Applications/Lazarus/components/macfiles/examples/createmacapplication.lpr in your IDE. Compile after changing "FileUtil" in the Uses clause to "LazFileUtils". (Bug logged).

Alternatively, there is a script in the Wiki here to do it.

[Jonny]

Perfect - thank you very much.