So you CAN build an OS X app from another system...

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Schonewille wrote:

> I've seen your posts on this subject several times now and I never
> thought it was a real problem. I have now actually done a test on Win
> XP, building a standalone on a PC, zipping it and copying it over to a
> Mac OS X Leopard machine. The standalone runs fine. Under which
> circumstances doesn't the standalone run exactly?

You're right; my recipe was incorrect in noting the Zip step.

The original problem I had to solve was for an installer that needs to 
be able to build standalones for all platform onto a USB drive.

Zipping does work from Windows, which is what I'm doing now (with a note 
to the user that they have to unzip it; a drag, but I can't find a way 
around that.

The cool thing I found last night was that I can build Mac standalones 
on Linux that can be copied directly without needing to be zipped. 
(That is, until Steve Jobs finds out and then adds something to the OS 
or its license agreement to prevent that.)

This opens up new options for me to consider a Linux laptop as my main 
portable, whereas before the anomalies of OS X had previously required 
me to stay locked in to Apple products.

I'd still keep a Mac along with my Windows machines for testing, but 
being able to consider this shift in my workflow feels quite liberating.


@Richmond:  looking over the variety of bug reports around the 'net 
related to fonts on Linux, I'm not certain the issue you're experiencing 
can be solved by Rev alone.  It may be, but it's worth noting that 
different apps show greatly differing sets of fonts on Linux, and I 
don't know of any IDE that also takes care of bundling fonts for you.

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