Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?

[Ron Tarrant]

On Friday, 27 September 2019 at 12:42:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

> For macOS you should distribute a GUI application for end users 
> as an application bundle [1]. That's basically a directory 
> containing a specific structure. Any dependencies and resources 
> like libraries (GTK), images and so on should be bundled inside 
> the application bundle. Then package the application bundle 
> inside an archive, ideally a Disk Image (DMG) [2]. The 
> application would be completely self contained and the user can 
> install it by dragging it to the Application directory.
>
> There might be some specific documentation how to bundle a GTK 
> application on macOS. I found this [3], don't know if it's good 
> or not.
>
> Ideally the application should be distributed on the Mac App 
> Store. But that requires a developer account that costs money. 
> It also has some restrictions that distribution outside of the 
> Mac App Store doesn't have. If you cannot distribute using the 
> Mac App Store the next best thing is to notarize the 
> application (also requires a paid developer account, as far as 
> I can see) before distributing it. Otherwise the user will get 
> a dialog complaining that the application is from an unknown 
> developer and the user need to explicitly go into System 
> Preferences to allow it.
>
> [1] 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000123i-CH101-SW1
>
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image
> [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-mac-bundler
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg

Excellent, Jacob. Thanks for all that.