Confised over Medium Blog

[toomanylogins]

Would be grateful if someone could explain this line of the medium blog.

bash <PRODUCT_HOME>/macOS-x64/build-macos-x64.sh [APPLICATION_NAME] [APPLICATION_VERSION]

Whats <PRODUCT_HOME> ? I guess its a path but to where same as ?

Thanks

[KosalaHerath]

It is the path to the repository home.

[toomanylogins]

Thanks for reply but I must be misunderstandind something.

1. I have downloaded zip and copied to Users\Paul\Documents\macos-installer-builder-master\macOS-x64\
2. Copied my application files to Users\Paul\Documents\macos-installer-builder-master\macOS-x64\application
3. Run bash Users\Paul\Documents\macos-installer-builder-master\macOS-x64\build-macos-x64.sh YouDoCMS 1.0.0

I get error re apache maven missing, Ballerina missing and various target\darwin\scripts etc no such file or directory.

Would appreciate any advice.
Thanks
Paul

[KosalaHerath]

Hi Paul,

The warnings you got from Maven and Ballerina are pre-requisites that are specialized only for my example application. These requirements are not probably needed for your application and you can just comment the following code block.

#Pre-requisites
command -v mvn -v >/dev/null 2>&1 || {    
log_warn "Apache Maven was not found. Please install Maven first."    
# exit 1
}
command -v ballerina >/dev/null 2>&1 || {    
log_warn "Ballerina was not found. Please install ballerina first."    
# exit 1
}

This can be found in the following line.
https://github.com/KosalaHerath/macos-installer-builder/blob/master/macOS-x64/build-macos-x64.sh#L182

However, these warnings will not affect your application and since these are just reminders (which can be ignored in your case), the installer should be generated without any other errors as follows.

Next, I have no idea about your "target\darwin\scripts etc no such file or director" error and if you can provide the log of errors as above you got, I will be able to provide more help on this case.

In addition, to clarify the process, just download and unzip the repository, and then without adding any application files just try to run the 'build-macos-x64.sh' script and check the installer generation works without any errors.

Cheers!

[toomanylogins]

Thank you for taking time to reply, I downloaded the zip again. Here is output after unzip to my documents folder on Mac 10.15.

bash /Users/paul/Documents/macos-installer-builder-master/macOS-x64/build-macos-x64.sh YouDoCMS 1.0.0
cat: ./utils/ascii_art.txt: No such file or directory

Application Name : YouDoCMS
Application Version : 1.0.0
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][WARN] Apache Maven was not found. Please install Maven first.
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][WARN] Ballerina was not found. Please install ballerina first.
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Installer generating process started.
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Cleaning target directory.
cp: darwin: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/scripts: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Resources: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/scripts/postinstall: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/scripts/postinstall: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/scripts/postinstall: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Resources/.html: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Resources/.html: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Resources/: No such file or directory
cp: ./application/.: No such file or directory
cp: darwin/Resources/uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwinpkg/Library/YouDoCMS/1.0.0/uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwinpkg/Library/YouDoCMS/1.0.0/uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Application installer generation process started.(3 Steps)
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Apllication installer package building started.(1/3)
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Application installer product building started.(2/3)
Do you wish to sign the installer (You should have Apple Developer Certificate) [y/N]?

[toomanylogins]

Thank you for taking time to reply, I downloaded the zip again. Here is output after unzip to my documents folder on Mac 10.15.

bash /Users/paul/Documents/macos-installer-builder-master/macOS-x64/build-macos-x64.sh YouDoCMS 1.0.0
cat: ./utils/ascii_art.txt: No such file or directory

Application Name : YouDoCMS
Application Version : 1.0.0
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][WARN] Apache Maven was not found. Please install Maven first.
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][WARN] Ballerina was not found. Please install ballerina first.
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Installer generating process started.
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Cleaning target directory.
cp: darwin: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/scripts: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Resources: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/scripts/postinstall: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/scripts/postinstall: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/scripts/postinstall: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Distribution: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Resources/.html: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwin/Resources/.html: No such file or directory
chmod: target/darwin/Resources/: No such file or directory
cp: ./application/.: No such file or directory
cp: darwin/Resources/uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwinpkg/Library/YouDoCMS/1.0.0/uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
sed: target/darwinpkg/Library/YouDoCMS/1.0.0/uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Application installer generation process started.(3 Steps)
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Apllication installer package building started.(1/3)
[2021-06-01 11:26:52][INFO] Application installer product building started.(2/3)
Do you wish to sign the installer (You should have Apple Developer Certificate) [y/N]?

[toomanylogins]

Fixed. You have to cd to the folder containing the .sh script before running bash build-macos-x64.sh

[KosalaHerath]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for mentioning the issue. The issue with the absolute path is fixed with this commit now. Thus now you can run it from anywhere using the absolute path.

Cheers!

[toomanylogins]

Thanks.