[mythtv-users] OS X icon question...

Calvin Gorriaran calvin at houstonns.com
Sat Dec 4 00:47:18 UTC 2004


On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 06:12:27PM -0500, Jeremiah Morris wrote:
> On 3 Dec 2004, at 4:25 PM, Calvin Gorriaran wrote:
> 
> >I have a stupid OS X question. I have compiled mythfrontend on my 
> >powerbook. Works perfect, though I
> >am still trying to get mythvideo compiled. One issue I have is I can't 
> >seem to make an icon for it.
> 
> Can you really not create an icon, or is it just that the frontend 
> fails to launch?  Double-clicking mythfrontend.app won't work yet 
> without some hacking.  Unless you've modified your environment.plist, 
> mythfrontend.app won't be able to find the shared libraries it needs if 
> you launch it from the Finder or the Dock.  (Your .bash_profile is only 
> used in the Terminal, not in the graphical environment.)
> 
> You can find out more about environment variables in the GUI here:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html
> 
> - Jeremiah
> 

Sorry, should have been more clear. Basically it wont launch. I am able to make the icon. This is most 
likely my problem. I should have known that that out of bash that mythfrontend would have no idea 
where the libraries were. I will read up on this.


Thanks,



Calvin


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