Repair the MacOS bundle (.dmg package) (!795) · Merge requests · mlz / BornAgain

Ammar Nejati requested to merge fixMacBundle into main Apr 22, 2022

The MacOS bundle was not functioning due to several problems, like

Library not loaded: @rpath/_libBornAgainGUI.so
  Referenced from: /Volumes/*/bornagain.app/Contents/MacOS/BornAgain
  Reason: image not found

The previous Python script, cmake/pack/fix_apple_bundle.py, is replaced by a zsh script which improves and corrects the bundle-producing mechanism:

Missing libraries are added.
All dependencies are found automatically up to an arbitrary depth.
The required Qt framework is added automatically (no need to mention Qt components manually).
References and RPATHs are calculated and set automatically.
Python dependencies are found and their references and RPATHs are set correctly.
Everything is documented in detail.

The produced MacOS bundle is tested successfully on Catalina (macOS 10.15, x86_64). Further tests are needed.

Repair the MacOS bundle (.dmg package)