Building an OSX distribution

Easy:

1. Run ./make_mac_build from WITHIN the src folder and that will do everything aside from making the executable have the right icon.
2. Change app icon to that of the .icns file in the images subdirectory. If necessary, you can build the mac icon using the free Graphics Tools obtainable via Xcode->xcode menu->Open developer tools->more developer tools. Then, use the Icon composer.

The app will be in the 'frozen' directory one level up from the source directory.

Notes:

• There is a function in open_mee_mac.py that creates pangorc with the path to pango.modules as required at run-time. This solved a problem where the text in graphs produced by R showed up as boxes.
• Without the r_tmp folder in the same directory as the app, R will not be able to make graphs
• These instructions were written while building a system where all the development stuff was installed using macports. (R, rpy2, PyQt4, python)
• Make sure you package the zip file you release with the app, sample_data, and r_tmp folder

note 2015-09-22: Only the py2app mac build process seems to be working: ./make_mac_build_py2app