create-dmg

A shell script to build fancy DMGs.

Status and contribution policy

Create-dmg is maintained thanks to the contributors who send pull requests. As of May 2020, Andrew Janke is the primary maintainer, and (since September 2018) @aonez has helped with the maintenance. The project home page is https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg.

We will merge any pull request that adds something useful and does not break existing things.

If you're an active user and want to be a maintainer, or just want to chat, please ping us on Gitter at gitter.im/create-dmg/Lobby, or email Andrew directly.

Create-dmg was originally created by Andrey Tarantsov.

Installation

You can install this script using Homebrew:
```
brew install create-dmg
```
You can download the latest release and install it from there:
```
make install
```
You can also clone the entire repository and run it locally from there:
```
git clone https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg.git
```

Usage

create-dmg [options ...] <output_name.dmg> <source_folder>

All contents of source_folder will be copied into the disk image.

Options:

--volname <name>: set volume name (displayed in the Finder sidebar and window title)
--volicon <icon.icns>: set volume icon
--background <pic.png>: set folder background image (provide png, gif, jpg)
--window-pos <x> <y>: set position the folder window
--window-size <width> <height>: set size of the folder window
--text-size <text_size>: set window text size (10-16)
--icon-size <icon_size>: set window icons size (up to 128)
--icon <file_name> <x> <y>: set position of the file's icon
--hide-extension <file_name>: hide the extension of file
--custom-icon <file_name|custom_icon|sample_file> <x> <y>: set position and -tom icon
--app-drop-link <x> <y>: make a drop link to Applications, at location x, y
--ql-drop-link <x> <y>: make a drop link to /Library/QuickLook, at location x, y
--eula <eula_file>: attach a license file to the dmg
--rez <rez_path>: specify custom path to Rez tool used to include license file
--no-internet-enable: disable automatic mount&copy
--format: specify the final image format (default is UDZO)
--add-file <target_name> <file|folder> <x> <y>: add additional file or folder (can be used multiple times)
--disk-image-size <x>: set the disk image size manually to x MB
--hdiutil-verbose: execute hdiutil in verbose mode
--hdiutil-quiet: execute hdiutil in quiet mode
--sandbox-safe: execute hdiutil with sandbox compatibility, do not bless and do not execute the cosmetic AppleScript
--version: show tool version number
-h, --help: display the help

Example

#!/bin/sh
test -f Application-Installer.dmg && rm Application-Installer.dmg
create-dmg \
  --volname "Application Installer" \
  --volicon "application_icon.icns" \
  --background "installer_background.png" \
  --window-pos 200 120 \
  --window-size 800 400 \
  --icon-size 100 \
  --icon "Application.app" 200 190 \
  --hide-extension "Application.app" \
  --app-drop-link 600 185 \
  "Application-Installer.dmg" \
  "source_folder/"

See the examples folder in the source tree for more examples.

Requirements

Nothing except a standard installation of macOS/OS X is required.

We think this works in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later.

We'd like to keep it working in as many versions as possible, but unfortunately, we just don't have test boxes running old versions of OS X adequate to make this happen. Development and testing mostly happens in the last 3-5 years' worth of macOS releases; as of 2020, this means macOS 10.12 and later.

But if you find a bug in an older version, go ahead and report it! We'll try to work with you to get it fixed.

If you're running OS X 10.5 or later, you're SOL. That's just too hard to deal with in 2020. ;)