I am working on what should be a very simple application bundle for OS X. My OS is version 10.7.5. The app in this case is a shell script.
Kerkerkruip.app/Contents/Info.plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>Kerkerkruip</string>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>Kicon.icns</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>org.kerkerkruip.Kerkerkruip</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>Kerkerkruip</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>
<!--<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
<string>????</string>-->
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>9.0.1</string>
<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
<string>10.4</string>
<key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
<string>© 2011-2015 by the Kerkerkruip team</string>
<!--<key>NSMainNibFile</key>
<string>MainMenu</string>-->
<!--<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
<string>NSApplication</string>-->
</dict>
</plist>
Kerkerkruip.app/Contents/MacOS/Kerkerkruip:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "This is a blank script." 1>&2
exit 1
When I try to open the app I get the following error message:
$ open Kerkerkruip.app/
The application cannot be opened because it has an incorrect executable format.
The script is set +x. I have seen this question on SuperUser but nothing there helped - my script is over 27 characters.
Edit: After following the instructions in this other question to rebuild the Launch Services database for my app, trying to open it now produces:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/dannii/Documents/kerkerkruip/packages/osx/Kerkerkruip.app.
I did some testing, and was able to reproduce your second error.
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /PATH/TO/Kerkerkruip.app.
After experimentation, it looks like the issue is caused by your shell script exiting with the error code of 1
. If you exit
with the success code of 0
, the error does not occur.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "This is a blank script." 1>&2
exit 0