12.3 Creating a Mac OS X application bundle

The section applies only to LispWorks for Macintosh with the native Cocoa GUI.

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. The example delivery scripts in this manual automatically create the Application Bundle, using the code described below.

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

12.3.1 Example application bundle delivery script

12.3.2 Further Mac OS X delivery examples