jbomutils

Java open source tools to create bill-of-materials files used in Mac OS X installers

This is Java port of https://github.com/hogliux/bomutils

jbomutils are a set of tools to create Mac OS X installer packages on foreign OSes (windows, linux, etc.) with Java. These tools can be used as part of the cross-compilation process. In particular, it includes an open source version of the mkbom tool which is distributed as a closed-source version on Mac OS X Developer Tools.

Commandline usage

To create a bom file, follow the following steps.

1. Put the installation payload into a directory. We assume the name of the directory is 'base'
2. Use mkbom to create the bom file by invoking 'java -jar jbomutils.jar mkbom -u 0 -g 80 base Bom'

Ant task usage

You can create BOM files from Ant using task mkbom:

<taskdef name="mkbom" classname="com.jpexs.jbomutils.ant.MkBomTask" classpath="somelibdir/jbomutils.jar" />
...
        <mkbom destfile="${basedir}/Bom">
            <!-- Add some files -->
            <tarfileset dir="${basedir}/base" prefix="data/">
              <patternset>
                <include name="**/*.jpg"/>                
              </patternset>
            </tarfileset>
            <tarfileset dir="${basedir}/src" prefix="source/">
              <patternset>
                <include name="**/*.java"/>                
              </patternset>
            </tarfileset>
        </mkbom>   

Original Documentation

For full documentation of original tool, it is best to follow the tutorial at http://hogliux.github.io/bomutils/tutorial.html

Acknowledgments

Joseph Coffland, Julian Devlin, Baron Roberts, Fabian Renn for making original bomutils.