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appify — create the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script (adds an application icon)
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
VERSION=4.0.1 | |
SCRIPT=`basename "$0"` | |
APPNAME="My App" | |
APPICONS="/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/GenericApplicationIcon.icns" | |
OSX_VERSION=`sw_vers -productVersion` | |
PWD=`pwd` | |
function usage { | |
cat <<EOF | |
$SCRIPT v${VERSION} for for Mac OS X - https://gist.github.com/oubiwann/453744744da1141ccc542ff75b47e0cf | |
Usage: | |
$SCRIPT [options] | |
Options: | |
-h, --help Prints this help message, then exits | |
-s, --script Name of the script to 'appify' (required) | |
-n, --name Name of the application (default "$APPNAME") | |
-i, --icons Name of the icons file to use when creating the app | |
(defaults to $APPICONS) | |
-v, --version Prints the version of this script, then exits | |
Description: | |
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script. | |
Appify has one required parameter, the script to appify: | |
$SCRIPT --script my-app-script.sh | |
Note that you cannot rename appified apps. If you want to give your app | |
a custom name, use the '--name' option | |
$SCRIPT --script my-app-script.sh --name "Sweet" | |
Copyright: | |
Copyright (c) Thomas Aylott <http://subtlegradient.com/> | |
Modified by Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/> | |
Modified by Andrew Dvorak <http://OhReally.net/> | |
Rewritten by Duncan McGreggor <http://github.com/oubiwann/> | |
EOF | |
exit 1 | |
} | |
function version { | |
echo "v${VERSION}" | |
exit 1 | |
} | |
function error { | |
echo | |
echo "ERROR: $1" | |
echo | |
usage | |
} | |
while :; do | |
case $1 in | |
-h | --help ) usage;; | |
-s | --script ) APPSCRIPT="$2"; shift ;; | |
-n | --name ) APPNAME="$2"; shift ;; | |
-i | --icons ) APPICONS="$2"; shift ;; | |
-v | --version ) version;; | |
-- ) shift; break ;; | |
* ) break ;; | |
esac | |
shift | |
done | |
if [ -z ${APPSCRIPT+nil} ]; then | |
error "the script to appify must be provided!" | |
fi | |
if [ ! -f "$APPSCRIPT" ]; then | |
error "the can't find the script '$APPSCRIPT'" | |
fi | |
if [ -a "$APPNAME.app" ]; then | |
error "the bundle '$PWD/$APPNAME.app' already exists" | |
fi | |
APPDIR="$APPNAME.app/Contents" | |
mkdir -vp "$APPDIR"/{MacOS,Resources} | |
cp -v "$APPICONS" "$APPDIR/Resources/$APPNAME.icns" | |
cp -v "$APPSCRIPT" "$APPDIR/MacOS/$APPNAME" | |
chmod +x "$APPDIR/MacOS/$APPNAME" | |
cat <<EOF > "$APPDIR/Info.plist" | |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> | |
<plist version="1.0"> | |
<dict> | |
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key> | |
<string>$APPNAME</string> | |
<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key> | |
<string>$APPNAME</string> | |
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key> | |
<string>$APPNAME</string> | |
<key>CFBundleName</key> | |
<string>$APPNAME</string> | |
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key> | |
<string>APPL</string> | |
<key>CFBundleSignature</key> | |
<string>4242</string> | |
</dict> | |
</plist> | |
EOF | |
echo "Application bundle created at '$PWD/$APPNAME.app'" | |
echo | |
Hi ! Something has to change over the time. The script successfully creates an .APP but it does not work in these days. I tried to make simple shell script that works when if invoked directly, however it does not work if wrapped by .APP. Any idea ?
radim@Radim-MacBookPro14 % ./test
Ahoj !
radim@Radim-MacBookPro14 % ./test.app/Contents/MacOS/test
Ahoj !
radim@Radim-MacBookPro14 % ./test.app
zsh: permission denied: ./test.app
radim@Radim-MacBookPro14 % open ./test.app
The application cannot be opened for an unexpected reason, error=Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-10661 "(null)" UserInfo={_LSLine=4129, _LSFunction=_LSOpenStuffCallLocal}
radim@Radim-MacBookPro14 % sw_vers
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 14.4.1
BuildVersion: 23E224
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Thank you for this convenient script. It works like a charm on my Intel iMac running Monterey. On my MacBook Air M1 (Apple Silicon) on the other hand I only get a pop up which offers to install Rosetta emulation. This does not make a lot of sense to me, since I've only packaged a bash script. Any idea if this is a general limitation of macOS and the M1 SOC?