octave-app-bundler

This repository contains the necessary files to build Octave.app (version >=4) using Homebrew.

If you're a user and just want to run Octave, you don't want this repo. Just go here to download the installer. (This repo just contains the tools that are used to build that installer.)

Alternately, you can use a package manager as described here.

More general information about installing Octave is available at http://wiki.octave.org/Create_a_MacOS_X_App_Bundle_Using_Homebrew.

Contact

This project is maintained by the octave-app Organization. Sebastian Schoeps developed the original code. Andrew Janke is a co-maintainer.

The home repo for this project is octave-app/octave-app-bundler on GitHub. But bugs should be reported on the Issue Tracker for the main octave-app project.

Homebrew formulae used for Octave.app are in the octave-app/octave-app tap.

Usage

Again, if you just want to use Octave, you should download the pre-built binary instead of running octave-app-bundler yourself.

For those who do want to bundle their own Octave.app:

Clone the repo recursively with git clone --recursive https://github.com/octave-app/octave-app-bundler, cd to it, and run ./bundle_octave. The defaults will build an app using a recent version of Octave.

bundle_octave does have options, but they're mainly for use in debugging bundle_octave itself. They're not recommended for users, so avoid them unless you have a specific reason to use one. For details on the options, see ./bundle_octave --help.

How it works

Octave-app-bundler uses Homebrew to build and install Octave and all its dependencies. This is done in a separate Homebrew prefix under the target application so it doesn't interfere with any existing Homebrew installations. It then bundles those programs as a macOS app bundle, and creates an installer DMG using andreyvit's create-dmg tool.