Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

joester5

Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

in Integration and Hardware • 3 months ago

I'm building a project in Processing 2.09b, and it exports fine, however, people multiple with Mountain Lion cannot open the application file. I made a "hello world" sketch and had the same problem. Is there an easy workaround?

Thanks in advance

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GoToLoop

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

You should be using the not so recent stable v2.0 release rather than a beta version!

Of course, since Processing is compiled in Java, any1 willing to run it should have at least Java JRE installed!

Also, if you compiled your program w/ a 64-bit Java, it needs a 64-bit JRE to run it.

Same for Java version, if you used Java 7 to compile it, it won't run on systems w/ just JRE 6!

joester5

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

I updated java and upgraded to processing 2.0, but am still getting a message that says "'app_name' is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash."

joester5

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

Hmm. So if I re-read your reply you're saying I'm going to need to author the app on a machine mountain lion running in order to make a app for Mountain lion? Grrr.

GoToLoop

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

... to author the app on a machine mountain lion running in order to make a app for Mountain lion?

Not a specific machine or OS. It's the Java version that counts!

In short, a machine which has a 64-bit JRE 7 installed can run any Java program!

Same for 32-bit JRE 7, except it can't run a program compiled w/ a 64-bit JDK!

joester5

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

Makes sense. Is there a simple way to see which version of Java I have?

Another issue is Lion's "we don't want you installing anything not from apple default". I'm having my tester turn that off - will update.

joester5

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

I'm sorry for asking a forum a very googleable question. Guilty as charged. I'm updating Java now.

GoToLoop

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

Here's a simple snippet to display some specs:

Copy code

println(javaVersionName);

println( System.getProperty("os.name") );
println( System.getProperty("os.arch") );
println( System.getProperty("os.version") );

println( System.getProperty("java.home") );

exit();

Also, you may try to type this command in the console:

java -version

joester5

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

Oh cool - from within processing - makes sense.

So even with my update I only have version 1.6.0_51
This is why I was saying I was going to need a machine with mountain Lion, just because I won't be able to get my Java high enough on my older laptop without updating the OS (which I really don't want to).

GoToLoop

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

Just like I told in this post below:

http://forum.processing.org/topic/java-mode-not-working

a link to get newest Java SE JDK 7u25:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html

joester5

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

Seems to need Lion :(

PhiLho

Re: Exporting Application for Mountain Lion

3 months ago

" Same for 32-bit JRE 7, except it can't run a program compiled w/ a 64-bit JDK!"
Wrong. Generated bytecode is the same whatever the kind of Java is used and the platform you are on (can vary a bit with Java version, though).
Same for the Java version. Code compiled for Java 1.6 should work with any version of Java 1.6. _xx sub-versions are mostly bug fixes.

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