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Hi cr0.

I assemble Mac OS .app application and now trying to switch from ant bundler task to your gradle one. In the ant task i have the next settings, which i can't find in your implementation:

<target name="bundleMac" depends="cleanTarget, checkProperties">
    <taskdef name="bundleapp"
           classname="com.oracle.appbundler.AppBundlerTask"
           classpath="${basedir}/lib/appbundler-1.0.jar"/>

     <bundleapp >

         <classpath file="${buildDir}/libs/BuildUberJar.jar"/>
         <classpath file="${libDir}/lib.dylib"/>
         <classpath file="${libDir}/license.txt"/>
         <classpath file="${resDir}/${splashImagePath}"/>

this classpath property copies files from build resources to Contents/Java bundled directory and would be used by the application at runtime.

There are 2 problems i have:

1. Instead of just putting my single über-jar to Java directory it puts all the dependencies jars.
2. I've not found a way to copy resources (like those dylib, txt and splash image) to Java directory.
3. When i build using this ant task in the result Content directory also Resources subdirectory exists with my '128.icns' and some default en.lproj/Localizable.strings messages ("JRELoadError", "MainClassNameRequired", "JavaDirectoryNotFound"). Why it's absent in this gradle task?

Thanks.

I use these build settings for splash screen (see this JDK thread for details of the splash screen usage http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2012-November/005174.html):

macAppBundle {
    ....
    javaXProperties.add('dock:icon=Contents/Resources/${bundle.icon}')
    javaXProperties.add('ms64m')
    javaXProperties.add('mx1024m')

    javaProperties.put('com.apple.smallTabs', 'true')

    arguments.add("-splash:\$APP_ROOT/Contents/Java/${splashImageName}")

and it creates (as expected) the next Info.plist:

    <key>JVMOptions</key>
    <array>
      <string>-Dcom.apple.smallTabs=true</string>
      <string>-Xdock:icon=Contents/Resources/${bundle.icon}</string>
      <string>-Xms64m</string>
      <string>-Xmx1024m</string>
    </array>
    <key>JVMArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>-splash:$APP_ROOT/Contents/Java/splash.png</string>
    </array>

but, the JVM argument is not used: when i run the app the splash screen is not shown. If i move <string>-splash:$APP_ROOT/Contents/Java/splash.png</string> from JVMArguments->JVMOptions (manually in Info.plist) - the application works as expected.

But, in the same time i can't put -splash property to this array using gradle config macAppBundle, because to JVMOptions section only -X and -D prefixed values are included (see

Could you add a possibility to add JVMOptions without -X or -D prefixes? Thanks

BTW, this property javaExtras existed in @crotwell version, but remove in you changes:
2bd66bf

Some of my users are still on Java 1.6 and therefore can't run my application which runs on Java 1.7. They are confused by the error message, which just says "JRELoadError".

It would be very helpful, if there would be a short error description, which says that you need to download / update Java and then opens the Java download page in the user's browser.

Hi, nice work!
It would be very nice, if you could submit your updated version of the macAppBundle plugin to the gradle repository.
See: http://plugins.gradle.org/submit

Thank you!