[Coco] OSX hacker needed

[Aaron Wolfe]

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 ?
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> http://dev.alopix.net/2012/10/start-java-virtual-machine-on-os-x-via.html
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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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