Xulrunner fails without feedback on OSX Intel 10.4.7

[Will Morton]

Hello list;

I am trying to port our XUL application to OS X. However when I run
xulrunner from the command line it fails silently without feedback.
The xulrunner-bin executable runs for about 4-5 seconds, then exits.
It outputs no message to the console or system logs and returns code
0 to the shell. Passing the -console and/or -jsconsole options have
no effect on this behaviour. I have tried several other XUL
applications as well as ours, with the same result.

My system is OS X Intel 10.4.7. I get the same result using
xulrunner 1.8.0.1, 1.8.0.4 and the latest nightly 1.8.

Can anyone give me any pointers on how to pin down this problem?

Thanks,

Will

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Will Morton wrote:

This is a hard problem, and I'm hoping to add additional logging/error
facitilies to the trunk to make this easier to pin down. But it would be
helpful if you indicated what procedure you used to

1) build/install xulrunner
2) install the application
3) run the application

I may be able to post some debugging components that will help identify at
what stage things are failing.

--BDS

[Will Morton]

Hi Ben;

I downloaded the OSX xulrunner .dmg files and installed them using
the standard OSX package installer. I am not trying to install
applications, just run them from their own directory using '/path/to/
xulrunner-bin application.ini'.

Am happy to build from source or jump through whatever hoops you
think might help.

Cheers

Will

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[Benjamin Smedberg]

Will Morton wrote:
> Hi Ben;
>
> I downloaded the OSX xulrunner .dmg files and installed them using the
> standard OSX package installer. I am not trying to install
> applications, just run them from their own directory using
> '/path/to/xulrunner-bin application.ini'.

This is part of your problem at least. In order for applications to run on
mac, they must be in an application bundle (Foo.app). The xulrunner
-install-app flag can be used to "unpack" a XUL app into the correct mac
bundle structure.

--BDS