App won't open on OS X Mavericks

[jahewson]

I packed a simple "hello world" application for OS X and it runs on my development machine fine. However, on a machine with a fresh install of Mavericks, where there is no JVM, the app does not run, instead I get a dialog prompting me to install Java 6:

Packr command was as follows:

java -jar packr-1.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
  -platform mac
  -jdk "openjdk-1.7.0-u45-unofficial-icedtea-2.4.3-macosx-x86_64-image.zip"
  -executable hello 
  -appjar gui.jar
  -mainclass "com/example/gui/HelloWorld"
  -minimizejre true
  -outdir out.app

[jahewson]

I tried running the "hello" binary directly from the terminal (with "Contents" as the working directory), still no luck but I get the following output:

config file: /Users/john/Desktop/out.app/Contents/MacOS/config.json
jar: /Users/john/Desktop/out.app/Contents/MacOS/gui.jar
mainClass: com/example/gui/HelloWorld
No Java runtime present, requesting install.

Then I see the same dialog.

[badlogic]

Can confirm, the joy of testing o the development system...

I think i'll have to rewrite the jvm so loading to us dl instead of rpaths.

Thanks for reporting!
On May 7, 2014 7:29 PM, "John Hewson" notifications@github.com wrote:

I tried running the "hello" binary directly from the terminal (with
"Contents" as the working directory), still no luck but I get the following
output:

config file: /Users/john/Desktop/out.app/Contents/MacOS/config.json
jar: /Users/john/Desktop/out.app/Contents/MacOS/gui.jar
mainClass: com/biblific/gui/HelloWorld
No Java runtime present, requesting install.

Then I see the same dialog.

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[badlogic]

This should be fixed, please try the latest packr and let me know if that worked for you!

[jahewson]

Unfortunately not, I tried it with fb8cac2 built from source and I'm still getting the same dialog.

[code-disaster]

Maybe packr doesn't find your JVM archive? Be sure you are specifying an absolute path, or a relative path to the working directory for the "-jdk" parameter.

As a slightly related side note, as stbachmann and me are troubleshooting in the same area right now: when started with the openjdk-1.7.0-u40 JVM, OSX complains about X11 not been installed on my system. Seems this dependency was removed with u45.

[jahewson]

The JDK is there in the output bundle, in Contents/MacOS/jre. I can confirm that Contents/MacOS/jre/lib/server/libjvm.dylib is being loaded, as if I remove from the bundle I get a segfault.

[dan-fitzgerald-av]

I'm still seeing this issue as well. My workaround was adding the "bin/java" file from openJDK to the package and writing a .command script to run "jre/bin/java -jar [app.jar]." Then in my info.plist I changed CFBundleExecutable to the name of that .command script. Pretty hacky! Unfortunately then my app gets an openJDK icon when run instead of the icon I provided.

[code-disaster]

@dan-fitzgerald-av You might get your icon back adding "-Xdock:icon=/path/to/icon.png" to your command script.

I'm trying to resolve this right now by modifying packr for MacOS to do more or less the same you did with your script. I'll yet have to see how ugly it gets... :)

[ghost]

I don't reproduce this bug. One of my testers is under Mac OS X 10.9.4, I put OpenJDK 1.7 update 65 into my application bundle.