Suriyakumarvijayanayagam
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Chosen deliberately as a DEVELOPER build, not a product. Indian retail
counters are Windows; shipping a Mac product means an Apple Developer
account, notarisation, a second installer format, a second frozen engine
and DPAPI having no macOS equivalent - a permanent second platform for
customers who do not have Macs. What a Mac build is worth is demoing the
desktop app on the machine it is written on, without needing the Windows
box.
It built after one missing framework (previous commit) and then crashed
within a second, twice, both times in the tray:
systray.Run SIGTRAP inside cgo. nativeLoop() takes the
macOS main run loop for itself and Wails
already has it. macOS has exactly one.
RunWithExternalLoop "NSWindow should only be instantiated on the
main thread!" - it registers in the existing
NSApplication rather than starting a second,
but still builds AppKit objects, and Wails'
OnStartup is not the main thread.
Making it work needs the status item created through a main-queue
dispatch inside Wails' lifecycle. That is real work for a build whose
purpose is a demo, so macOS has no tray and the file says so at length
rather than leaving the next person to rediscover both crashes.
The consequence is handled rather than left lying. With no tray there is
no way back from a hidden window and no way to quit, so hiding on close
would strand a running engine behind no window, no tray and no control -
force-quit or nothing. On macOS closing the window therefore quits, and
OnShutdown stops the engine. Same rule the tray's Quit already follows:
never leave it watching with no visible control. Windows is untouched,
where hiding is correct because the tray is how it comes back.
The runner is split by build tag rather than branched at runtime because
the two platforms need different systray ENTRY POINTS, not different
arguments.
Verified: 18 seconds up, zero crash markers, 88 MB resident, and an
honest "engine not installed yet" instead of a crash - against a
throwaway data dir so it claimed nothing and touched no camera. The
frozen Mac engine is deliberately not built; the app takes an engine
command from config, which is how the dev setup already points at the
venv.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KGcjxF1cNLcuwc3DAPcnfj
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