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119 lines
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# Application distribution
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To distribute your app with atom-shell, you should name the folder of your app
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as `app`, and put it under atom-shell's resources directory (on OS X it is
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`Atom.app/Contents/Resources/`, and on Linux and Windows it is `resources/`),
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like this:
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On Mac OS X:
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```text
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atom-shell/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/
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├── package.json
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├── main.js
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└── index.html
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```
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On Windows and Linux:
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```text
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atom-shell/resources/app
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├── package.json
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├── main.js
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└── index.html
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```
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Then execute `Atom.app` (or `atom` on Linux, and `atom.exe` on Windows), and
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atom-shell will start as your app. The `atom-shell` directory would then be
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your distribution that should be delivered to final users.
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## Packaging your app into a file
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Apart from shipping your app by copying all its sources files, you can also
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package your app into an [asar](https://github.com/atom/asar) archive to avoid
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exposing your app's source code to users.
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To use an `asar` archive to replace the `app` folder, you need to rename the
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archive to `app.asar`, and put it under atom-shell's resources directory like
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bellow, and atom-shell will then try read the archive and start from it.
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On Mac OS X:
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```text
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atom-shell/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/
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└── app.asar
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```
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On Windows and Linux:
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```text
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atom-shell/resources/
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└── app.asar
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```
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More details can be found in [Application packaging](application-packaging.md).
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## Rebranding with downloaded binaries
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After bundling your app into atom-shell, you will want to rebrand atom-shell
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before distributing it to users.
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If you don't care about the executable name on Windows or the helper process
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name on OS X, you can simply rename the downloaded binaries, and there is also a
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grunt task that can download prebuilt atom-shell binaries for your current
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platform automatically:
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[grunt-download-atom-shell](https://github.com/atom/grunt-download-atom-shell).
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### Windows
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You can not rename the `atom.exe` otherwise native modules will not load. But
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you can edit the executable's icon and other information with tools like
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[rcedit](https://github.com/atom/rcedit) or [ResEdit](http://www.resedit.net).
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If you don't use any native Node module, it is fine to rename `atom.exe` to any
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name you want.
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### OS X
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You can rename `Atom.app` to whatever you want, and you also have to rename the
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`CFBundleDisplayName`, `CFBundleIdentifier` and `CFBundleName` fields in
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following manifest files if they have these keys:
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* `Atom.app/Contents/Info.plist`
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* `Atom.app/Contents/Frameworks/Atom Helper.app/Contents/Info.plist`
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### Linux
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You can rename the `atom` executable to whatever you want.
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## Rebranding by rebuilding atom-shell from source
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The best way to rename atom-shell is to change the product name and then build
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from source. To do this you need to override the `GYP_DEFINES` environment
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variable and have a clean rebuild:
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__Windows__
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```cmd
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> set GYP_DEFINES="project_name=myapp product_name=MyApp"
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> python script\bootstrap.py
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> python script\build.py -c Release -t myapp
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```
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__Bash__
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```bash
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$ export GYP_DEFINES="project_name=myapp product_name=MyApp"
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$ script/bootstrap.py
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$ script/build.py -c Release -t myapp
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```
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### grunt-build-atom-shell
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Manually checking out atom-shell's code and rebuilding could be complicated, so
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a Grunt task has been created that will handle this automatically:
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[grunt-build-atom-shell](https://github.com/paulcbetts/grunt-build-atom-shell).
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This task will automatically handle editing the `.gyp` file, building from
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source, then rebuilding your app's native Node modules to match the new
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executable name.
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