RFR: 8286122: [macos]: App bundle cannot upload to Mac App Store due to info.plist embedded in java exe

[Michael Hall]

> On May 19, 2022, at 7:14 PM, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Alexander
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>>> I think it will be a problem to implement this for native launchers.
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> Basically you are telling the developer in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8286122 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8286122> that it isn’t currently possible for their application to get into the Mac App Store as is.
> I was thinking you could possibly in the comments mention the possibility the developer could provide these in an archive themselves that they manually manage as a workaround. 
> Leave them with a possible path forward to achieve this.
> I have successfully done this for something similar if not identical.
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I think it can work for java commands as well. You have to set them executable after extraction and point to the embedded jdk lib directory

DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=JavaCommand.app/Contents/runtime/Contents/Home/lib JavaCommand.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaCommand 
java version "18" 2022-03-22
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 18+36-2087)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 18+36-2087, mixed mode)

I can provide the full JavaCommand source code and jpackage invocation if of interest. But yes, it works.

From…

String v = rtexec(new String[] { Paths.get(dataLoc,"java").toString(),"-version" });
System.out.println(v);

You’d have to figure out how to provide the environment variable on the runtime invocation. That I didn’t verify, but it doesn’t seem impossible.
I added that after getting…

JavaCommand.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaCommand
dyld[5725]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libjli.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/mjh/testLoc/java
  Reason: tried: '/libjli.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/mjh/JavaCommand.app/Contents/app/libjli.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/mjh/testLoc/./libjli.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/mjh/testLoc/../lib/libjli.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/mjh/testLoc/./libjli.dylib' (no such file), '/Users/mjh/testLoc/../lib/libjli.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libjli.dylib' (no such file)