Cannot launch executable through symbolic link (v1.1.0)

[blochberger]

When launching the executable through a symbolic link, the application is started differently, i.e., outside of the application bundle. This disconnects the command-line tool from the information property list (Info.plist). When trying to access the main bundle of the application in

blocki/BlockiKit/Blocki.swift

Line 13 in 4e918e5

Bundle.main.bundleIdentifier! + ".ContentBlocker"

the process fails to detect the bundle identifier, which is usually obtained from the default information property list. This causes a forced unwrap of nil and crashes the process.

Related questions on Stack Exchange (unanswered at the time of writing):

• https://stackoverflow.com/q/31848366/5082444
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/29203

Ideas

Usually, the information property list can be embedded into the executable itself, e.g., to enable the App Sandbox for command-line utilities, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/60282941/5082444. Simply enabling the corresponding Xcode setting did not create the respective section in the binary, though.

As explained in a601899, creating a separate command-line executable will not work either.

Workarounds

• Use an shell alias instead of a symbolic link, as suggested in the README.
• Create a wrapper script somewhere in PATH:

  #!/bin/sh
  '/Applications/Blocki.app/Contents/MacOS/Blocki' "$@"