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I have a MacOS app bundle bare bones working. That is, it runs the executable, that's it. Icon still isn't working even though I have an MyApp.icns file I can visually see in Finder. And i18n isn't working.

MyApp.app/

  Contents/

    Info.plist

    MacOS/

      MyApp # executable

    Resources/

      MyApp.icns

      en.lproj

        InfoPlist.strings

      jp.lproj

        InfoPlist.strings

The .icns I generated from here:

mkdir MyIcon.iconset

sips -z 16 16     foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_16x16.png

sips -z 32 32     foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_16x16@2x.png

sips -z 32 32     foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_32x32.png

sips -z 64 64     foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_32x32@2x.png

sips -z 128 128   foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_128x128.png

sips -z 256 256   foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_128x128@2x.png

sips -z 256 256   foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_256x256.png

sips -z 512 512   foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_256x256@2x.png

sips -z 512 512   foo.png --out MyIcon.iconset/icon_512x512.png

cp Icon1024.png MyIcon.iconset/icon_512x512@2x.png

iconutil -c icns MyIcon.iconset

rm -R MyIcon.iconset

My Info.plist is like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

  <key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

  <string>en</string>



  <key>CFBundleName</key>

  <string>MyApp</string>



  <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>

  <string>MyApp</string>



  <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

  <string>MyApp</string>



  <key>CFBundleVersion</key>

  <string>1.0.0</string>



  <key>CFBundleVersion</key>

  <string>APPL</string>



  <key>CFBundleSignature</key>

  <string>MyApp</string>



  <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

  <string>this/has/no/effect</string>



  <key>CFBundleIconFile</key>

  <string>NeitherDoesThis</string>

</dict>

The InfoPlist.strings for each language looks like this:

CFBundleDisplayName = "Foo";

NSHumanReadableCopyright = "Copyright © 2019 Me.";

or:

CFBundleDisplayName = "ふ";

NSHumanReadableCopyright = "著作権法 © 2019 目.";

The problems I'm having are:

• I can't specify the executable path, it only works if it is named the same as MyApp.app, so MyApp executable.


• The icon MyApp.icns isn't rendering in the /Applications folder (which is the only place I've put it so far). I'm not sure if I can customize that path either.


• I'm not sure how to test if i18n works.

Wondering if one could verify that stuff, and show how to test the other things. Specifically:

1. Verify that you can't actually customize the path of the executable, it must be named the same as the app in the MacOS folder.


2. Verify that you must name the icon the same as the app, with .icns extension. I'm not sure this is true because for example Skypes main Icon is in the Resources/Skype Blue.icns location, and they say Skype Blue in the Info.plist. Wondering why I can't get this working.


3. How to test that i18n works. Wondering if I just change the Mac system language and open the app again, etc.

This is all without using XCode.