Awesome

Mac App Shell

Creates a Mac OSX .app folder (complete with icons) ready for your binary file. Perfect for Golang, C++, Rust, or any other language that compiles to a binary file on OSX.

Usage

Download or clone the repo.
Pass the name of your Application and an image file for the icon.
```
 $ ./setup.sh MyNewApp app-icon.svg
```

Then just copy the binary file into the folder

 $ cp mybinary MyNewApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyNewApp

Icon formats:

The image file can be .svg (recomended), .png, .gif, .jpg, or .tiff format.

Free SVG Icons

GUI

It's recomended your .app have a GUI if you want to interact with a user (since the terminal is not shown).

Example

There is an examples folder contains a GUI example. Download an icon to use.

Go

Build the go project, run the macappshell script, and then move the go binary into the new .app folder.

	cd examples/Go/
	go build *.go
	cd ../../
	./setup.sh hello ion-quote.svg
	mv example/Go/hello hello.app/Contents/MacOS

Rust

todo

C++

todo

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Thanks to @HaoDong for his original gist.