FlashGBX-macOS

This is a shell script for compiling and updating FlashGBX on macOs, resulting in a "native" application that is also easy to update.

Precompiled binaries can also be downloaded from releases, if you don't want to bother with the script.

FlashGBX official repo: https://github.com/lesserkuma/FlashGBX/

Prerequisites

• Python
• Pyinstaller

  pip install -U pyinstaller

Setup

1. Download flashgbx.sh and put it in a folder for sourcing shell scripts. I have put mine in
2. Source the file in your .zshrc
3. Source .zshrc or restart your terminal

How to use

Run the script in your preferred terminal with the command "updateFlashGBX"

Example

I put my script in ~/.config/zsh/functions and I'm sourcing all shell scripts in this folder with the following command in my .zshrc script

for file in ~/.config/zsh/functions/*.sh; do
    source "$file"
done

How it works

The script

1. Checks the version of the current installation (if any), and compares it to latest release in the official repo using githubs api.
2. If a new version is available, it clones the repo to a .tmp folder, and checks out the commit associated with the latest release.
3. Using pyinstaller, the script creates a mac application
4. Then update the app to have the correct version number with plutil
5. And finally it overwrites the current installation with rsync