Re: LuaForWindows update?

[Paul K <paulclinger@...>]

> By deployment, I assume you mean an install? I figure that CMake can
> be made to copy the bundles and documentation to a separate dir that
> could be turned into dmg. However, I've never done that before, but it
> looks fairly easy. There is still a lot to do to make good bundles
> though.

Right; this is what I want to do (in terms of turning into dmg). I
want to make it easy for MacOS users to install my wxLua-based
application. It includes one/two executables and a bunch of .lua files
and related resources. This may be relevant, although old discussion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wxlua-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00360.html

> documentation. I guess they all go into subdirectories of a
> wxLua-X.Y.Z subdirectory in Applications? I have to look into how
> other people have done it... unless you already know.

No, I don't know yet, but I'm going to figure it out.

Paul.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:04 PM, John Labenski <jlabenski@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Paul K <paulclinger@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Thank you for the help; I've managed to build wxLua on MacOS using
>> CMake, but ended up specifying i386 architecture as it seems like 2.8
>> wxwidgets require 32bit builds.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to package this application for MacOS deployment?
>> Let's say I want to deploy wxLuaEdit.
>
> By deployment, I assume you mean an install? I figure that CMake can
> be made to copy the bundles and documentation to a separate dir that
> could be turned into dmg. However, I've never done that before, but it
> looks fairly easy. There is still a lot to do to make good bundles
> though.
>
> I'm also not sure how best to deploy it. OSX programs seem to
> typically have a single bundle that you copy to the Applications dir,
> but wxLua has multiple applications, sample Lua programs, and
> documentation. I guess they all go into subdirectories of a
> wxLua-X.Y.Z subdirectory in Applications? I have to look into how
> other people have done it... unless you already know.
>
> Regards,
>    John
>