mac: Script for creating a .pkg installer

[g-maxime]

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[JeromeMartinez]

For your info, we failed to build a portable version of gtk3 (depends on a lot more of other projects), and we had hard time to build a portable version of gtk2, we were able to build it only on a old machine after several tries and this script downloads a binary of gtkdialog from mediaarea.net servers.
vrecord pkg can be built from any machine when downloading gtkdialog from our server, so updates are easy if you don't need to update gtkdialog. The project gtkdialog seems inactive so it may not be needed.

[privatezero]

Did a quick test of this on my end (on a machine that is not 'clean'). So far have not been able to fully run the script - it appears to be erroring during the xmlstarlet build phase with:

Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.72/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 299. autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 2

[g-maxime]

Did a quick test of this on my end (on a machine that is not 'clean'). So far have not been able to fully run the script - it appears to be erroring during the xmlstarlet build phase with:

Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.72/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 299. autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 2

Should be fixed now, the latest script version no longer requires the autotools.

[retokromer]

On a clean macOS 26.2 I got:

gcc -g -I -c deckcontrol.cpp
deckcontrol.cpp:6:10: fatal error: 'DeckLinkAPI.h' file not found
    6 | #include "DeckLinkAPI.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [deckcontrol.o] Error 1

The installer should also include DeckLink, right?

[g-maxime]

On a clean macOS 26.2 I got:

gcc -g -I -c deckcontrol.cpp
deckcontrol.cpp:6:10: fatal error: 'DeckLinkAPI.h' file not found
    6 | #include "DeckLinkAPI.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [deckcontrol.o] Error 1

The installer should also include DeckLink, right?

• DeckLink SDK is not part of the packaging script, it should be in the standard include path, or in the BMSDK environment variable.

Here the build command on our CI:

export BMSDK="/Users/ci/DeckLinkSDK/Mac/include"
./Release/Release_Mac.sh

• The DeckLink drivers are not included in the .pkg distribution for technical and licensing reasons, and must be installed separately.

[JeromeMartinez]

@g-maxime please add a comment at the beginning of the script about the need of BMDSK and optional MACOS_CODESIGN_IDENTITY :

• error message if `BMDSK is not set and also not in the path, indicating that DeckLink SDK is needed.
• warning message if MACOS_CODESIGN_IDENTITY is not set, warning that the pkg will be valid but may be not instable on all machines.

macOS security being more and more strict with unsigned packages, it is better to sign the packages.
For information, package delivered by MediAarea are signed.

[privatezero]

Just ran it again, and after setting BMDSK variable was able to have it generate vrecord.unsigned.pkg (I did not set the MACOS_CODESIGN_IDENTITY variable).

Because of this, it is erroring at the cp I believe in line https://github.com/amiaopensource/vrecord/pull/951/files#diff-db958a4ce080264cb95487af7d807ed6e967a6791d9b9eb5ec55c2548edf2cb4R276. Other than that though, seems to be performing as expected!

[retokromer]

The DeckLink drivers are not included in the .pkg distribution for technical and licensing reasons, and must be installed separately.

@g-maxime Sorry, I did erroneously understand that you wish one installer to install everything in one go.

[privatezero]

With recent changes, this seems to perform as expected on my end at least

[retokromer]

After installing DeckLink separately it works for me on macOS 26.2 and 15.7.3.