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Renaming Your App

Ravbug edited this page Jul 13, 2019 · 10 revisions

Renaming the output Executables

macOS

  1. Open mac.xcodeproj
  2. Select the top level item mac in the left sidebar, then press General, and expand the side pane
  3. Select macDynamic or macStatic and press Enter.
  4. Type the new name. You can exclude the words 'dynamic' or 'static' from the new name.
  5. Repeat for the other target.
  6. Build the app to ensure that it works. Highligting a renamed macDynamic in the Xcode interface

Windows

  1. Open windows.sln
  2. Right click the project in the solution explorer, and press Properties showing the right click menu to access project properties
  3. Under Configuration Properties > General, Find the field titled Target Name. Change the value to the new name of your executable. Repeat this for every configuration and platform (Debug and Release for Win32 and x64). showing the location of the Target Name field
  4. Press Build -> Rebuild Solution. Your old app will be replaced by the new one with the new name.

Linux

  1. Open makefile in a plain-text editor
  2. On line 3, set target = to a new name of your choosing
  3. Run make clean && make to rebuild the app with the new name, or delete the executable in linux-build/ and run make to partial rebuild with the new name.

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