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[nartz]

Currently a mac native build will produce:

target/jfx/app
target/jfx/native/(dmg, pkg, app)

The binary for the app is located at: target/jfx/native/MyProject.app/Contents/MacOs/MyProject

Is there a way to copy files in the same folder as the binary? Specifically, before the DMG is created (since i assume, the building of the DMG somehow uses the .app folder?

Thanks.

[FibreFoX]

You can try to use additionalAppResources for this, just recreate the needed subfolder-structure inside that provided folder.

[nartz]

My understanding is that using additionalAppResources will be placed inside of target/jfx/native/MyProject.app/Contents/Java, whereas we would like them placed in
target/jfx/native/MyProject.app/Contents/Resources or /Contents/MacOS

[FibreFoX]

Oh yes, you are right. I'm no Mac-user, sorry, so I forgot about the specialities from the Mac-Bundler.
Can you check if it works for you when you create the Contents-folder inside src/main/deploy/mac.app/? I added a special bundler, which was required as the official API didn't provide any of the requested feature.

[FibreFoX]

@nartz Did the src/main/deploy/mac.app-location work? Still an technical issue?

[nartz]

Hmmmm - is that a default path that it looks at or do i have to specify src/main/deploy/mac.app somewhere?

To test what you mentioned, i did the following:

1. mkdir src/main/deploy/mac.app/Contents
2. touch src/main/deploy/mac.app/Contents/foo.txt
3. mvn package

Unfortunately, I did not see foo.txt anywhere in the .app folder.

As a hacky workaround, i am just using the maven resources plugin to copy the necessary files into the .app folder after the .app is created - specifically, i use the 'install' phase to do the file copies, even though its not what its for =D. Of course this is non-ideal but maybe sufficient for a few months =D

The issue of course is that its hard to create a DMG or PKG with the necessary resources.

[FibreFoX]

Just to add some comment: I had to drop the workaround for supporting this, due to compatibility issues with JDK 9. No idea if I can get anything like this working again :( the "new" bundlers are encapsulated inside the new module-system, where I can't reach them ... in general this is not provided by the javapackager 😢

[nartz]

Alrighty - I guess i can have workarounds/scripts that stuff the data in as needed.