Creating DMG packages in Windows commandline

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I’m in the process of writing build scripts for my compiled Xojo projects that automates the packaging of the binaries into install scripts.

Does anyone perhaps know of a free Windows command line tool that can be used to package files into DMG archives?

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I was looking also and found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/286419/how-to-build-a-dmg-mac-os-x-file-on-a-non-mac-platform

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Thanks Jeremy.

I also came across that link while searching for solutions. However it seems that none of the suggestions caters for the command-line. I need to be able to build the DMG from the command-line, since I want to automate the packaging of my application binaries for OS X, Windows and Linux with a single click.

Hmm, I’ll search some more and post it here if I find any other solutions.

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Do you have access to an OSX box? If so, I wonder if some SSH scripting may be able to take care of it for you, for example hdiutil: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/hdiutil.1.html … scp your app to your OS X box, do code signing there, package up a DMG and scp back the DMG?

Code signing I believe will be another hurdle looking for a Windows only solution.

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BTW, I gave up on a single platform solution. For example, if on Windows, how do I make my DMG? How do I code sign? If on OS X, how do I make my InnoSetup Installer for Windows? I’m sure there are solutions to make it all work, but for me it was just easier to build on the two platforms that I currently support (Windows, OSX)…

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Write the innoSetup script from osx is easy. Then you create the installer via Parallels (or similia) with the innoSetup App.
With an only script from the IDE I currently create the DMG for OSX and the installer exe for Win and push both for my autoUpdate routines

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Yeah, I’ve got access to an OS X box that I use for testing. Will definitely look into hdiutil.

Thinking about it now, you make a good point that it might just be easiest to handle the packaging scripts separately on each platform for now. I’m new to OS X packaging, and perhaps once I’m more familiar with tools such as hdiutil I can relook at possible single click packaging scripts on Windows.

Thanks for the advice.

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[quote=13670:@Antonio Rinaldi]Write the innoSetup script from osx is easy. Then you create the installer via Parallels (or similia) with the innoSetup App.
With an only script from the IDE I currently create the DMG for OSX and the installer exe for Win and push both for my autoUpdate routines[/quote]

I didn’t realize InnoSetup can be written from OS X (thought it could only be done on Windows). Will definitely look into your suggestion Antonio, thanks.