how to package a macos app?

[longzhaozhao1010]

i use cargo build --release ,create a folder full of alias and it can't run in other mac

open in other mac it shows "open /Users/hank/Downloads/release/Qtalk.app
The application cannot be opened for an unexpected reason, error=Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-10827 "kLSNoExecutableErr: The executable is missing" UserInfo={_LSLine=3762, _LSFunction=_LSOpenStuffCallLocal}"

[knopp]

By default the cargo build doesn't build self-contained bundles.

There is bundle_tool project that you can install using

cargo install bundle_tool

and which can create self contained bundles as well as codesign and notarize them, but I haven't had much time to document it. After installing you can run cargo bundle-tool --help and see the available options.

[ihenk]

Hi, there. We tried many times, but we failed. Could you offer us more specific information? What exactly does 'SOURCE_DIR' mean? What exactly does 'OUT_DIR' mean? Thanks in advance.

[knopp]

Assuming you did cargo build --release and the bundle name is Qtalk.app

cargo bundle-tool -v macos-bundle target/release/Qtalk.app target/

This should create Qtalk.app bundle in the target folder that is self-contained (has no symlink to outside of bundle).

[ihenk]

I did cargo bundle-tool -v macos-bundle target/release/Qtalk.app target/ before cargo build release--. It didn't work, here is the reason below.

cargo bundle-tool -v macos-bundle /project/target/release/Qtalk.app target/
DEBUG [cargo_bundle_tool::macos::bundle] "/project/target/release/Qtalk.app/Contents": create directory
DEBUG [cargo_bundle_tool::macos::bundle] "/project/target/release/Qtalk.app/Contents/MacOS": create directory

** Tool failed with error **
File operation failed: Canonicalize, path: "target/Qtalk.app/Contents/MacOS/Qtalk", error: No such file or directory (os error 2)

[knopp]

Where are you running this? You need to run everything in the project directory.

cargo clean
cargo build --release
cargo bundle-tool -v macos-bundle target/release/Qtalk.app target/

This should create self-contained bundle in target/QTalk.app

[ihenk]

I did these commands in the project directory. cargo clean worked for us! Thank you so much for your help, we really appreciated it. By the way, 'NativeShell' is amazing, it's our livesaver.