Resource files in OS X bundle

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How to add resource files to an OS X application bundle

On OS X, applications are delivered as so called "bundles". That's just a directory with a predefined structure and the suffix .app. You can learn more about the structure in the "OS X specific deployment instructions":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/deployment-mac.html of the Qt documentation and in "Apple's own docs about application bundles":http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000123i-CH101-SW13.

If you have additional files that need to be distributed along your application that cannot be put into the "qrc resources":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/resources.html (eg. QML files), they have to be installed in the right place. For resource files this is YourFancyApplication.app/Contents/Resources.

You can let qmake do all the copy work for you. Just add a snippet like this to your .pro file:

APP_QML_FILES.files = path/to/file1.qml path/to/file2.qml
APP_QML_FILES.path = Contents/Resources
QMAKE_BUNDLE_DATA += APP_QML_FILES