Setting Icon for Raylib App on MacOS | Unix Executables/.app

[kennerhartman]

By looking through the discussions on this repo, I know how to set an icon for a Windows executable.

I tried using the *.rc.data file I generated for Windows on MacOS, but it does not set the icon for MacOS executables/.app (and I get a compiler error similar to the one down below). How do I set the icon of a Raylib application for a MacOS executable/.app I generate? I should note I am building this application in VS Code and not Xcode.

(I further tried using a *.plist, but I get a compiler error "ignoring file assets/Info.plist, building for macOS-x86_64 but attempting to link with file built for unknown-unsupported file format [hex code]".)

[raysan5]

I'm afraid macOS app icons work in a completely different way than Windows. The app is actually a zipped directory and icon must be a .icns file and placed in a very specific directory, I don't have the detailed info at hand now but you can check it on internet.

[raysan5]

Mmmmh... actually I don't know but I'd like to! I though -mwindows would work...

[kennerhartman]

I have tried this on macOS, but it doesn't work. No compiler warnings are thrown, but it does not achieve the same effect as it would on Windows.

[kennerhartman]

I just tested this out for the App Bundle to stop the console from opening:

Create a shell script that has the following code:

#!/bin/zsh
cd "${0%/*}"
open -a ./pong

and place it in pong.app/Contents/MacOS/

In /Contents/Info.plist, change the executable file from the unix executable to "pong.sh". I guess what the -a is doing is suppressing the console.

Still, the problem is still present for the unix executable and app bundle unless I use "open -a".

[raysan5]

Thanks for the solution, that's weird... I think there should be some compilation option...

[kennerhartman]

What I said was not correct.

If the app is properly bundled, then there is no need for the script nor to use open -a. In other words, the terminal will not show up when the Unix Executable is bundled as an app. However, the terminal will still show up when running the Unix Executable, (even when compiled with -mwindows) and instead you need to use open -a {executable file} to suppress the terminal.

I am closing this discussion.