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Normally if you zip a .app directory on Windows and unzip it on Mac OS X, it won't run. This tool creates a zip file that should have the correct executable flags set to work correctly.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os
import sys
import time
import zipfile
startingdir = os.getcwd()
if (len(sys.argv) == 1):
print("Usage: " + os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) + " path/to/application.app [path/to/output.zip]")
sys.exit()
if (len(sys.argv) > 3):
print("Wrong number of arguments - needs 1 or 2")
sys.exit(1)
appdir = sys.argv[1]
if (appdir[-5:] == ".app/"):
appdir = appdir[0:-1]
if (appdir[-4:] != ".app"):
print("Error: " + appdir + " is not a .app file.")
sys.exit(2)
dir = os.path.dirname(appdir)
if (not os.path.exists(appdir)):
print("Error: " + appdir + " does not exist.")
sys.exit(3)
os.chdir(dir)
appdir = os.path.basename(appdir)
zipname = appdir[0:-4] + ".zip"
if (len(sys.argv) == 3):
zipname = sys.argv[2]
zippath = os.path.join(startingdir, zipname)
else:
zippath = zipname
searchname = os.path.join(appdir, "Contents", "MacOS")
zip = zipfile.ZipFile(zippath, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(appdir):
for file in files:
filename = os.path.join(root, file)
if (filename[0:len(searchname)] == searchname):
f = open(filename, 'rb')
bytes = f.read()
f.close()
info = zipfile.ZipInfo(filename)
info.date_time = time.localtime()
info.create_system = 3; # Pretend file is from unix
info.external_attr = 0o100755 << 16 # Set file permissions
zip.writestr(info, bytes, zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
else:
zip.write(filename)
zip.close()
print("Created " + zipname)
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Could you tell me how to keep the soft connection when decompressing?

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Draknek commented Mar 27, 2024

Updated to python3, and fixed some issues (previously it seemed to be working on Windows from WSL but not otherwise)

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