Install CLI without the GUI?

[jhiggins]

Is there a way to install the CLI without using the user interface? The shell script in the bundle, as noted elsewhere, is templated.

[michaelherger]

I'd be very interested, too. As I hope to be able to run builds in a Github action, we would need a way to run the CLI version completely without GUI.

Maybe this hint might help? #245 (comment)

[michaelherger]

Thanks @berleant! Your hint in #245 (comment) was spot on (except that some of the files are gzipped and need to be extracted. Here's my Github Action snippet which would build a Hello World application using the Platypus CLI. Assuming the three files mentioned in the above comment and the sample script are in your repo's Bin/darwin/platypus folder:

      - name: Platypus Test
        run: |
          cd Bin/darwin/platypus

          sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/platypus || echo $?
          sudo cp -nfr * /usr/local/share/platypus || echo $?

          /usr/local/share/platypus/platypus_clt -y helloworld.sh
          zip -r9 HelloWorld.zip Helloworld.app

      - name: Upload artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
          path: Bin/darwin/platypus/HelloWorld.zip

[ad-si]

Here another example GitHub workflow from ad-si/Perspec:

      - name: Make Platypus CLI available
        run: |
          brew install --cask platypus

          mv /Applications/Platypus.app/Contents/Resources/platypus_clt.gz .
          gunzip platypus_clt.gz
          mv platypus_clt /usr/local/bin/platypus

          sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/platypus
          mv /Applications/Platypus.app/Contents/Resources/ScriptExec.gz .
          gunzip ScriptExec.gz
          sudo mv ScriptExec /usr/local/share/platypus/

          sudo mv \
            /Applications/Platypus.app/Contents/Resources/MainMenu.nib \
            /usr/local/share/platypus/

[sveinbjornt]

I'm planning for the next version of the Platypus command line tool to store the nib in the binary itself so it will be completely self-contained. That way, an install will simply involve copying a single binary file to a given location.