Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / April 2006

# Hi,
#
# I have an application bundle I created with an older version of
# InstallAnywhere.  It almost works!  It looks like its loading, briefly
# shows the application name on the menu bar, then quits.
#
# Is there someway to trouble shoot this?  Can I start the app from the
# command line somehow or look at a log file somewhere to see what went
# wrong?  I assume I have a file misplaced or a classpath not set right,
# but if you can't see any error messages what can I do?

Open a Terminal window. Drag and drop the application icon from
Finder onto the Terminal window. That will insert the path up to
.app. Backspace over the trailing space, and type in
Contents/MacOS/executablename (tabbing if your shell supports it).

That gives you the command line to the executable. You can add
program parameters, if any, and hit return. That will launch the
application with stdin, stdout, and stderr attached to the Terminal
window. You can also run command line gdb here.

You can also run multiple invocations of the application from different
Terminal windows.

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On 17/04/2006, surferwill@gmail.com wrote in message
<1145291348.813312.194110@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>:

Do you absolutely definitely /need/ it to have an installer ?  Can you not
just prepare an application icon or folder for the user to drag wherever
they want it ?

Simon.