[Coco] OSX hacker needed

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

or this for a objective-c launcher:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040321163154226



On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> That sounds like what is needed.  I am not familiar with doing c/c++
> on Macs, is that something that can be dumped into Xcode and given a
> nice icon, etc?
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)
> <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > did you see this ?
> >
> >
> http://dev.alopix.net/2012/10/start-java-virtual-machine-on-os-x-via.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello CoCoNuts,
> >>
> >> Would any Mac/OSX types be willing to take on a (hopefully) minor
> >> project that needs someone with a bit of OSX programming expertise?
> >>
> >> DriveWire 4 has a nice .exe launcher for Windows with a proper icon,
> >> etc.  You can also just double click on the .jar file to start DW in
> >> Windows.
> >>
> >> In Linux, you can double click the .jar file or run the included .sh
> >> script, which depending on the gui and file manager one is using often
> >> looks fairly obviously like the thing the user should do.
> >>
> >> However, on the Mac things are not great.  Double clicking on the .jar
> >> doesn't work.  I created a .command file that sort of works, but it
> >> leaves an unneeded Terminal.app window around and it doesn't look like
> >> something Mac folks are used to seeing, no icon or any visual clues.
> >>
> >> Can anybody create some binary that will look like "The Right Thing To
> >> Do" with a proper icon that simply launches the JVM with some hard
> >> coded arguments?  I have googled around and not found such a thing.
> >> On Windoze I just use "launch4j" and it creates the nice .exe for me,
> >> but Mac doesn't seem to have an equivalent.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help or guidance
> >> -Aaron
> >>
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