I just finished an app and used AppWrapper 3.8 to codesign it and create an Apple installer. Seemed to go fine, no errors wrapping, but after running the installer, it says it was successful, buy my app isn’t in my Applications folder. Did a search for it as well and the only places I could find it were on the Desktop where I put the initial compiled version before wrapping and one in the Wrapped Applications folder AppWrapper created. Don’t understand why the Apple installer didn’t work right. Ideas? Running OSX 10.12.6. App was compiled with x86 32 bit, but also tried 64. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. Thought I had all the same AppWrapper settings as a successful app I created just a couple weeks ago.
Have you tried your installer on a fresh computer or a VM? It was recently mentioned that the installer is trying to be clever and replaces existing versions of your app.
Drag your installer package onto the App Wrapper icon and it will open the installer tester, this will do several things.
- Show you where existing copies of the application are installed.
- When you use the tester window to install the application, it will report where your application was installed too.
Apple’s installer package will replace any existing copies on your machine, before it will install in the applications folder. This is great when you want to ship an update to your customers, but causes all kinds of confusion as it’s all done without telling you where it’s installing to.
I think it was reinstalling over the copy on my Desktop. After I deleted that and re-installed it seemed to work. Thanks.
Thank you very much for this hint.