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‎Mar 13, 2008
02:17 PM
Creating Installer for MacOS
Hi
I need help creating a MacOS installer using InstallShield MultiPlatform 11.5 Premium edition.
It would be really great if anyone can point me step to step document.
Thanks in Advance,
-chris
I need help creating a MacOS installer using InstallShield MultiPlatform 11.5 Premium edition.
It would be really great if anyone can point me step to step document.
Thanks in Advance,
-chris
(2) Replies
‎Mar 14, 2008
05:43 PM
The ISMP 11.5 help section Platform Help > Mac OS X Platform Pack has some information that should help.
‎Apr 10, 2008
01:23 PM
Chris,
To add support for Mac you just need to enable the platform support and then either the Mac OS X App bundle or Launcher Distribution. I did run into some issue with the JRE that ships with 10.1 but the update from Apple fixed them. You will also have to launch the installer from a console window with root privileges if you plan to install to system level locations (i.e. System folder) and there is no way to invoke the authentication services. I had to write a piece of code that makes the API call to Mac OS to invoke the authentication service then launch the installer with these privileges, of course I also had to build an uninstall helper to do the same.
Best of luck,
-michael
To add support for Mac you just need to enable the platform support and then either the Mac OS X App bundle or Launcher Distribution. I did run into some issue with the JRE that ships with 10.1 but the update from Apple fixed them. You will also have to launch the installer from a console window with root privileges if you plan to install to system level locations (i.e. System folder) and there is no way to invoke the authentication services. I had to write a piece of code that makes the API call to Mac OS to invoke the authentication service then launch the installer with these privileges, of course I also had to build an uninstall helper to do the same.
Best of luck,
-michael