Tutorial to make our own Portable Apps?

Tutorial to make our own Portable Apps?

LittleDoodle 24 Feb 2018 19:39

Hello, I've known FreeSmug for a while now and I really enjoy the concept of portable applications for OSX.
Sadly, the apps today are usually very buggy, slow, outdated, and some are still PowerPC apps. This is a dud, since Intel is much more used nowadays.

Is there any tutorial on how to package any open source application to a portable app on FreeSMUG? It would be much more convenient for me to make all my favorite apps portable, with my custom preferences, that I can use on any Mac with my USB. I would LOVE that!!!

Thanks,
LittleDoodle

Re: Tutorial to make our own Portable Apps?

CGand 24 Feb 2018 22:19

I've answered to a similar topic few weeks ago here:
http://www.freesmug.org/forum/t-4244530/please-help-with-libreoffice-and-or-openoffice#post-3632144

As you are interested to save your preferences, if you like to automate it, you can have a look to the shell scripts source code here:
http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps:code

All scripts need to be updated with last macOS versions.