What is the recommended way to package a C ++ daemon on Mac OSX?

Question

I am working on a multi-platform project consisting of a service / daemon that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

The code I have is portable, and the application works fine (from the command line) on all systems. Since this application is designed to run in the background, I made it a Windows service on Windows and a Linux daemon (with corresponding scripts in init.d) for Linux.

Now my problem is Mac OSX: I have little experience with this operating system, and it’s hard for me to find the best methods for my situation:

I would like to have an installer for my project (I believe in the .dmg file, which is most likely to install .app, please correct me if there is a better alternative).

Here is some information about my project:

• It is fully built in C ++ (it uses boost, curl, iconv)
• The current build system is not Xcode (however, if there is a way to keep my current code layout while integrating and embedding everything in Xcode, I don't mind, I did something similar for Windows anyway).
• No graphical user interface
• The daemon should start automatically at startup (or even better: make a user choice).
• The daemon requires root access during its execution.

This is probably a lot of context for consideration on one issue, so I will try to simplify its reading:

How would you package / create the installer for the pure-C ++ daemon on Mac OSX?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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, , , - pkgbuild productbuild, /usr/bin. OS X, Pro-Xcode Developer ID ready pkg, .

Answer 3

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