macOS: real .plugin bundle packaging, libobs @rpath fixup, hard-fail CI check

Closes the "macOS packaging gap" documented in README.md: CI built a real
adapter module on macOS but staged it as a bare streamer-tools-camera.so,
which OBS.app cannot load (it needs a <name>.plugin bundle), and otool -L
showed the libobs dependency as the relative path
libobs/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs instead of an @rpath reference.

cmake/macos/helpers.cmake adapts (not vendors as-is) obs-plugintemplate's
cmake/macos/helpers.cmake: upstream builds the bundle almost entirely
through XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_* properties and its own CI drives that with
`xcodebuild -project <name>.xcodeproj`, but this project's home-mac runner
has only the Command Line Tools, not Xcode.app (already established by
buildspec_common.cmake's CI-iteration-1 comment), and the whole project
builds with Ninja end to end. So this reimplements the same outcome --
Contents/MacOS, Contents/Resources, a real Info.plist -- with CMake's own
generator-agnostic BUNDLE/BUNDLE_EXTENSION/MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST/
MACOSX_PACKAGE_LOCATION target properties (verified working under Ninja via
a dry-run configure with APPLE spoofed), and does by hand what upstream gets
from Xcode's embed/codesign build phases:
  - copies obs-adapter/data/** into Contents/Resources/**, since OBS's
    AddExtraModulePaths() (UI/window-basic-main.cpp) passes
    Contents/Resources as a macOS module's *data path* -- not a sibling
    data/ the way Linux/Windows work -- so the locale ini has to land at
    Contents/Resources/locale/en-US.ini for OBS_MODULE_USE_DEFAULT_LOCALE
    to find it
  - copies the LiveKit runtime dylibs into Contents/Frameworks
  - fixes up the libobs dependency: cmake/macos/fixup-libobs-rpath.sh
    rewrites the relative install name the from-source libobs build records
    to @rpath/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs (LiveKit's own dylibs
    already record @rpath references, confirmed in prior CI otool -L
    output, so only libobs needs the rewrite)
  - gives the plugin binary two LC_RPATH entries via INSTALL_RPATH:
    @loader_path/../Frameworks (this bundle's own Frameworks, for LiveKit)
    and @executable_path/../Frameworks (OBS.app/Contents/Frameworks, for
    libobs.framework -- @executable_path is always relative to the host
    process's main executable, not this dlopen'd bundle)

obs-adapter/CMakeLists.txt: calls stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle() before
staging, and corrects the staged layout for macOS -- OBS's module search
wants the whole <name>.plugin dropped directly into .../obs-studio/plugins/,
not nested under a bin/ subdirectory the way Linux/Windows are, so
build/package/ now holds the bundle at its own top level on macOS instead of
build/package/bin/<name>.plugin.

.gitea/scripts/macos-build.sh (this project's macOS steps were factored out
of build.yml into this shared script, used by both build.yml and
release.yml, in a concurrent commit -- rebased onto that): the "Show what
was built" section now hard-fails unless a real .plugin bundle (with
Info.plist, bundled LiveKit dylibs, and locale data) was produced, the
libobs dependency resolves via @rpath rather than the old relative path,
and both LC_RPATH entries are present -- closing the same
false-positive-green gap this project's Windows find_package(libobs)
incident just exposed, which this check previously did not cover (it only
checked for a bare .so). release.yml's macOS packaging step already globs
for any `*.plugin` under build/ (added in the concurrent commit,
anticipating this fix), so it picks up the new layout with no change
needed.

Verified: Linux configure/build/ctest (STPLUGIN_BOOTSTRAP_OBS=OFF) still
passes 6/6, unaffected -- the new macOS CMake logic is fully guarded by
if(APPLE). The bundle/Info.plist/Resources-mapping logic itself was dry-run
verified by configuring a throwaway CMake project with APPLE spoofed to
TRUE, confirming buildspec.json values substitute correctly into Info.plist
and obs-adapter/data/locale/en-US.ini maps to Resources/locale/en-US.ini.
Not verified: an actual macOS build/link/otool pass, or loading the result
in real OBS.app -- this is a Linux sandbox with no way to do either: this
commit is going to the home-mac CI runner to get that verification next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RL8abRmgFXkVASHkkqiJbE

.gitea/scripts/macos-build.sh

@@ -27,14 +27,86 @@ ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure
 # This is not purely informational: the macOS bootstrap has been reliably
 # building the real module in CI (6/6 tests, artifact uploaded -- see
 # README), so a missing module here is a regression to fail loudly on, not
-# the old silent fallback. (This is separate from the macOS packaging gap in
+# the old silent fallback.
-# README -- that the module doesn't yet load as an OBS.app bundle -- which
+#
-# this check does not and cannot test.)
+# This used to only check for a bare streamer-tools-camera.so, which is
+# exactly the shape the "macOS packaging gap" in README.md documented as
+# broken: OBS.app cannot load a bare .so on macOS, it needs a <name>.plugin
+# bundle, and this check was blind to whether one was actually produced --
+# another instance of the same false-positive-green class of bug this check
+# exists to catch (see the Windows find_package(libobs) incident this
+# project just had). Now hard-fails unless:
+#   1. a real streamer-tools-camera.plugin bundle exists at the top level of
+#      build/package (macOS's plugin search wants the whole .plugin dropped
+#      straight into .../obs-studio/plugins/, not nested under a bin/
+#      subdirectory the way Linux/Windows are -- see
+#      obs-studio/UI/window-basic-main.cpp AddExtraModulePaths()), with
+#      Contents/MacOS/streamer-tools-camera, Contents/Info.plist,
+#      Contents/Resources/locale/en-US.ini (the module's locale data -- OBS
+#      passes Contents/Resources as the module's data path on macOS, not a
+#      sibling data/), and the bundled LiveKit dylibs under
+#      Contents/Frameworks;
+#   2. the libobs dependency in the built binary resolves via
+#      @rpath/libobs.framework, not the old relative path
+#      (libobs/libobs.framework/...) that a real OBS.app cannot load;
+#   3. the binary carries LC_RPATH entries for both
+#      @loader_path/../Frameworks (this bundle's own Frameworks) and
+#      @executable_path/../Frameworks (OBS.app/Contents/Frameworks).
 ls -la .deps/Frameworks/libobs.framework/Resources/cmake || true
-if [ ! -f build/package/bin/streamer-tools-camera.so ]; then
+
-  echo "::error::no plugin module was built -- build/package/bin/streamer-tools-camera.so is missing. The macOS from-source libobs bootstrap is expected to succeed; treat this as a build failure, not a core-library-only fallback."
+bundle="build/package/streamer-tools-camera.plugin"
+binary="${bundle}/Contents/MacOS/streamer-tools-camera"
+plist="${bundle}/Contents/Info.plist"
+locale="${bundle}/Contents/Resources/locale/en-US.ini"
+
+if [ ! -f "${binary}" ]; then
+  echo "::error::no plugin bundle was built -- ${binary} is missing. The macOS from-source libobs bootstrap is expected to succeed and produce a real .plugin bundle (not a bare .so, and not nested under bin/); treat this as a build failure, not a core-library-only fallback or a silently-reverted bundle."
   exit 1
 fi
-ls -la build/package/bin
+if [ ! -f "${plist}" ]; then
-otool -L build/package/bin/streamer-tools-camera.so
+  echo "::error::${bundle} exists but has no Contents/Info.plist -- this is not a loadable OBS.app bundle."
-otool -L build/package/bin/streamer-tools-camera.so | grep -E 'obs|livekit'
+  exit 1
+fi
+if [ ! -f "${locale}" ]; then
+  echo "::error::${locale} is missing -- OBS passes Contents/Resources as this module's data path on macOS (see AddExtraModulePaths() in obs-studio's UI/window-basic-main.cpp), so OBS_MODULE_USE_DEFAULT_LOCALE will fail to load the en-US locale at runtime."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "--- bundle contents ---"
+find "${bundle}" -maxdepth 4 -exec ls -ld {} \;
+echo "--- Info.plist ---"
+cat "${plist}"
+
+echo "--- otool -L ---"
+otool -L "${binary}"
+
+if ! ls "${bundle}"/Contents/Frameworks/liblivekit*.dylib >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  echo "::error::no LiveKit dylibs found under ${bundle}/Contents/Frameworks -- the plugin will fail to load at runtime."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if otool -L "${binary}" | grep -q 'libobs/libobs\.framework'; then
+  echo "::error::the libobs dependency is still recorded as the old relative path (libobs/libobs.framework/...) instead of @rpath/libobs.framework/... -- this is the exact macOS packaging gap the bundle fixup exists to close, and it did not take effect."
+  otool -L "${binary}" | grep -E 'obs|livekit'
+  exit 1
+fi
+if ! otool -L "${binary}" | grep -q '@rpath/libobs\.framework'; then
+  echo "::error::expected an @rpath/libobs.framework dependency in ${binary}, found none."
+  otool -L "${binary}" | grep -E 'obs|livekit'
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "--- LC_RPATH ---"
+rpath_dump=$(otool -l "${binary}" | grep -A2 LC_RPATH)
+echo "${rpath_dump}"
+
+if ! echo "${rpath_dump}" | grep -q '@loader_path/../Frameworks'; then
+  echo "::error::${binary} has no @loader_path/../Frameworks LC_RPATH (needed to resolve the bundled LiveKit dylibs)."
+  exit 1
+fi
+if ! echo "${rpath_dump}" | grep -q '@executable_path/../Frameworks'; then
+  echo "::error::${binary} has no @executable_path/../Frameworks LC_RPATH (needed to resolve libobs.framework inside OBS.app)."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "macOS bundle verification passed: real .plugin bundle, @rpath libobs dependency, both LC_RPATH entries present."

cmake/macos/Info.plist.in

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
+<plist version="1.0">
+<dict>
+	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
+	<string>en</string>
+	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
+	<string>@STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_EXECUTABLE@</string>
+	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
+	<string>@STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_ID@</string>
+	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
+	<string>6.0</string>
+	<key>CFBundleName</key>
+	<string>@STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_NAME@</string>
+	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
+	<string>BNDL</string>
+	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
+	<string>@STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_VERSION@</string>
+	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
+	<string>@STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_VERSION@</string>
+	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
+	<string>????</string>
+	<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>
+	<string>@STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_MIN_OS@</string>
+	<key>NSHumanReadableCopyright</key>
+	<string>Copyright (c) @STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_YEAR@ @STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_AUTHOR@</string>
+</dict>
+</plist>

cmake/macos/fixup-libobs-rpath.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# cmake/macos/fixup-libobs-rpath.sh <plugin-binary>
+#
+# The from-source libobs build this project's macOS bootstrap runs
+# (cmake/common/buildspec_common.cmake) records its own install name (its
+# LC_ID_DYLIB) as a relative path -- "libobs/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs"
+# -- rather than an @rpath reference. That is a property of that from-source
+# OBS build itself, not something this project's own link step controls: the
+# LC_LOAD_DYLIB entry our plugin binary gets for a dependency is copied
+# straight from that dependency's own LC_ID_DYLIB by the linker. A relative
+# path is not resolvable at runtime from inside an OBS.app plugin bundle --
+# see the "macOS packaging gap" this script fixes, documented in README.md.
+#
+# Rewrite that one dependency entry to @rpath/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs.
+# stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle() (cmake/macos/helpers.cmake) gives the
+# plugin binary an LC_RPATH of @executable_path/../Frameworks, which resolves
+# @rpath against the *host* OBS.app's own Contents/Frameworks/libobs.framework
+# at runtime (@executable_path is always relative to the process's main
+# executable -- OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/obs -- not to this dlopen'd bundle, no
+# matter how deeply the .plugin is nested under
+# ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins/<name>/bin/).
+#
+# The LiveKit runtime dylibs this same helper copies into the bundle's own
+# Contents/Frameworks are NOT touched here: client-sdk-cpp's own release
+# build already records their install names as @rpath references (confirmed
+# by otool -L on prior CI runs -- see README's "Where the macOS bootstrap
+# actually got to"), so the @loader_path/../Frameworks half of the same
+# LC_RPATH already resolves them with no rewrite needed.
+set -eu
+
+binary="$1"
+
+if [ ! -f "$binary" ]; then
+  echo "fixup-libobs-rpath: no such file: $binary" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+old_ref=$(otool -L "$binary" \
+  | awk '/libobs\.framework\/Versions\/A\/libobs/ && $1 !~ /^@rpath/ {print $1; exit}')
+
+if [ -n "${old_ref:-}" ]; then
+  echo "fixup-libobs-rpath: rewriting '$old_ref' -> '@rpath/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs' in $binary"
+  install_name_tool -change "$old_ref" "@rpath/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs" "$binary"
+else
+  echo "fixup-libobs-rpath: libobs dependency in $binary is already @rpath-relative (or was not found via otool -L); nothing to rewrite"
+fi

cmake/macos/helpers.cmake

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+# cmake/macos/helpers.cmake
+#
+# macOS ".plugin" bundle packaging for the OBS adapter module -- closes the
+# "macOS packaging gap" documented in README.md.
+#
+# Adapted from obsproject/obs-plugintemplate's cmake/macos/helpers.cmake
+# (fetched 2026-09-07, master branch) -- deliberately NOT vendored as-is.
+# Upstream's set_target_properties_plugin() builds the bundle almost
+# entirely through XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_* target properties
+# (XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_GENERATE_INFOPLIST_FILE for Info.plist, an Xcode "Embed
+# Frameworks" build phase for bundling its own dependencies, Xcode-driven
+# codesigning), and upstream's own CI drives that with `xcodebuild -project
+# <name>.xcodeproj` (.github/scripts/build-macos). None of that is available
+# here: XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_* properties are silent no-ops under any generator
+# but Xcode, and this project cannot use the Xcode generator on the `home-mac`
+# CI runner -- see cmake/common/buildspec_common.cmake's CI-iteration-1
+# comment, which already established empirically that this runner has only
+# the Command Line Tools installed, not Xcode.app, so there is no xcodebuild
+# to drive an .xcodeproj with. This project builds macOS with Ninja
+# end-to-end (both the from-source libobs bootstrap and this project's own
+# configure -- see the CI workflow), so this reimplements the same
+# *outcome* -- a real <name>.plugin bundle with Contents/MacOS,
+# Contents/Resources and a working Info.plist -- using CMake's own
+# generator-agnostic bundle support (the BUNDLE / BUNDLE_EXTENSION /
+# MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST target properties, which the Makefile/Ninja
+# generators implement natively, not just Xcode's), and does the two things
+# upstream gets "for free" from Xcode's embed/codesign build phases by hand:
+#
+#   0. copies obs-adapter/data/** into Contents/Resources/**, since OBS's own
+#      macOS module search (UI/window-basic-main.cpp AddExtraModulePaths())
+#      passes "<plugin>.plugin/Contents/Resources" as a module's *data path*
+#      -- not a sibling "data/" directory next to "bin/", which is the
+#      Linux/Windows shape and does NOT apply on macOS. Concretely: this
+#      project's OBS_MODULE_USE_DEFAULT_LOCALE(PLUGIN_NAME, "en-US") loads
+#      "<data_path>/locale/en-US.ini", so on macOS that file must land at
+#      Contents/Resources/locale/en-US.ini, not a top-level data/locale/.
+#      Mirrors upstream's own target_install_resources() -- also not
+#      Xcode-specific, since MACOSX_PACKAGE_LOCATION is another generator-
+#      agnostic bundle-content source-file property.
+#   1. copies the LiveKit runtime dylibs into Contents/Frameworks (the
+#      conventional location for a plugin bundle's own bundled dependencies)
+#   2. rewrites the libobs dependency from the relative path the from-source
+#      libobs build records as its own install name
+#      (libobs/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs) to
+#      @rpath/libobs.framework/Versions/A/libobs -- see
+#      cmake/macos/fixup-libobs-rpath.sh for why that rewrite is needed at
+#      all and cannot be done by our own link step -- and gives the plugin
+#      binary the LC_RPATH entries that make @rpath resolve for both
+#      dependencies: @loader_path/../Frameworks (this bundle's own
+#      Contents/Frameworks, for LiveKit) and @executable_path/../Frameworks
+#      (OBS.app/Contents/Frameworks, for libobs.framework itself).
+#
+# Bundle metadata (name/version/bundle id/author) is sourced from
+# buildspec.json, the same file the OBS-SDK bootstrap (buildspec_common.cmake)
+# already reads -- see its "platformConfig.macos.bundleId" / "name" /
+# "version" / "author" fields.
+
+include_guard(GLOBAL)
+
+# stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle: turn a MODULE library target into a real
+# OBS.app-loadable <name>.plugin bundle. No-op on non-Apple hosts so callers
+# do not need to guard every call site with if(APPLE).
+function(stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle target)
+  if(NOT APPLE)
+    return()
+  endif()
+
+  if(NOT DEFINED LIVEKIT_SDK_RUNTIME_LIBS)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR
+      "stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle(${target}): LIVEKIT_SDK_RUNTIME_LIBS is "
+      "not set. include(LiveKitSDK) + livekit_sdk_setup() must run before "
+      "this is called (see top-level CMakeLists.txt).")
+  endif()
+
+  # --- bundle metadata, from buildspec.json ---------------------------------
+  file(READ "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/buildspec.json" _stplugin_buildspec)
+  string(JSON _stplugin_bundle_name GET "${_stplugin_buildspec}" name)
+  string(JSON _stplugin_bundle_version GET "${_stplugin_buildspec}" version)
+  string(JSON _stplugin_bundle_author GET "${_stplugin_buildspec}" author)
+  string(JSON _stplugin_bundle_id GET "${_stplugin_buildspec}" platformConfig macos bundleId)
+
+  string(TIMESTAMP STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_YEAR "%Y" UTC)
+  set(STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_EXECUTABLE "${target}")
+  set(STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_NAME "${_stplugin_bundle_name}")
+  set(STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_VERSION "${_stplugin_bundle_version}")
+  set(STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_AUTHOR "${_stplugin_bundle_author}")
+  set(STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_ID "${_stplugin_bundle_id}")
+  if(CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET)
+    set(STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_MIN_OS "${CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}")
+  else()
+    set(STPLUGIN_BUNDLE_MIN_OS "13.0")
+  endif()
+
+  set(_stplugin_plist_out "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${target}-Info.plist")
+  configure_file(
+    "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/macos/Info.plist.in"
+    "${_stplugin_plist_out}"
+    @ONLY
+  )
+
+  # --- Contents/Resources: the module's data path on macOS ----------------
+  # See the "0." bullet in the file header. CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR here is
+  # obs-adapter (this function is called from obs-adapter/CMakeLists.txt, and
+  # include() does not change directory scope), so this globs
+  # obs-adapter/data/** the same way the flat-layout staging step elsewhere
+  # in that file does.
+  if(EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/data")
+    file(GLOB_RECURSE _stplugin_data_files "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/data/*")
+    foreach(_stplugin_data_file IN LISTS _stplugin_data_files)
+      cmake_path(
+        RELATIVE_PATH _stplugin_data_file
+        BASE_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/data"
+        OUTPUT_VARIABLE _stplugin_data_relpath
+      )
+      cmake_path(GET _stplugin_data_relpath PARENT_PATH _stplugin_data_reldir)
+      target_sources(${target} PRIVATE "${_stplugin_data_file}")
+      if(_stplugin_data_reldir)
+        set_property(SOURCE "${_stplugin_data_file}" PROPERTY
+          MACOSX_PACKAGE_LOCATION "Resources/${_stplugin_data_reldir}")
+      else()
+        set_property(SOURCE "${_stplugin_data_file}" PROPERTY
+          MACOSX_PACKAGE_LOCATION "Resources")
+      endif()
+    endforeach()
+  endif()
+
+  # --- bundle shape -----------------------------------------------------
+  # BUNDLE + BUNDLE_EXTENSION is CMake's own generator-agnostic mechanism
+  # (not Xcode-specific) for turning a MODULE library into a CFBundle;
+  # MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST tells the same mechanism which Info.plist to
+  # copy into Contents/. This is the traditional, non-Xcode-only path CMake
+  # has supported since long before XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_GENERATE_INFOPLIST_FILE
+  # existed, and is exactly what makes this work under Ninja.
+  set_target_properties(${target} PROPERTIES
+    BUNDLE TRUE
+    BUNDLE_EXTENSION "plugin"
+    MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST "${_stplugin_plist_out}"
+  )
+
+  # --- rpaths -------------------------------------------------------------
+  # BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH ON (matching the non-Apple UNIX branch in
+  # obs-adapter/CMakeLists.txt) means these two rpaths get embedded as
+  # LC_RPATH load commands by the linker itself at build time -- the
+  # artifact that ships is a straight copy of what gets built here, so the
+  # build-tree RPATH must never leak in.
+  #   @loader_path/../Frameworks      -> this bundle's own Contents/Frameworks
+  #                                       (LiveKit dylibs, staged below)
+  #   @executable_path/../Frameworks  -> OBS.app/Contents/Frameworks
+  #                                       (libobs.framework itself).
+  #                                       @executable_path is always relative
+  #                                       to the process's main executable
+  #                                       (OBS.app/Contents/MacOS/obs), not to
+  #                                       this dlopen'd bundle, regardless of
+  #                                       how deeply the .plugin is nested
+  #                                       under the user's plugin directory.
+  set_target_properties(${target} PROPERTIES
+    BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH ON
+    INSTALL_RPATH "@loader_path/../Frameworks;@executable_path/../Frameworks"
+  )
+
+  # --- bundled runtime deps + the libobs @rpath fixup --------------------
+  # $<TARGET_BUNDLE_DIR:target> is .../<target>.plugin for a BUNDLE target
+  # (available since CMake 3.0, unlike TARGET_BUNDLE_CONTENT_DIR which needs
+  # CMake >= 3.20 -- this project's cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.19)
+  # floor in the top-level CMakeLists.txt), so appending Contents/Frameworks
+  # avoids a ".." in the path TARGET_FILE_DIR would otherwise need.
+  set(_stplugin_frameworks_dir "$<TARGET_BUNDLE_DIR:${target}>/Contents/Frameworks")
+
+  add_custom_command(TARGET ${target} POST_BUILD
+    COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E make_directory "${_stplugin_frameworks_dir}"
+    COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy_if_different ${LIVEKIT_SDK_RUNTIME_LIBS} "${_stplugin_frameworks_dir}/"
+    COMMENT "Copying LiveKit runtime dylibs into ${target}.plugin/Contents/Frameworks"
+    VERBATIM
+  )
+
+  add_custom_command(TARGET ${target} POST_BUILD
+    COMMAND sh "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/macos/fixup-libobs-rpath.sh" "$<TARGET_FILE:${target}>"
+    COMMENT "Rewriting the libobs dependency of ${target} to @rpath"
+    VERBATIM
+  )
+endfunction()

obs-adapter/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -42,18 +42,32 @@ set_target_properties(${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES
 # straight copy of the built module (see the staging step below), so the
 # build-tree RPATH must never be baked in -- it would work on the build
 # machine and nowhere else.
-if(APPLE)
+#
-    set_target_properties(${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES
+# APPLE's rpath (and its whole bundle shape) is handled by
-        BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH ON
+# stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle() below instead -- a bundle needs two
-        INSTALL_RPATH "@loader_path"
+# rpaths (its own Contents/Frameworks *and* the host OBS.app's
-    )
+# Contents/Frameworks for libobs.framework), not the single flat
-elseif(UNIX)
+# "@loader_path" this used to set back when macOS staged a bare .so. See
+# cmake/macos/helpers.cmake.
+if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
     set_target_properties(${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES
         BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH ON
         INSTALL_RPATH "$ORIGIN"
     )
 endif()
 
+# --- macOS: turn the flat MODULE library into a real OBS.app-loadable
+# <name>.plugin bundle (Contents/MacOS, Contents/Resources, Info.plist,
+# Contents/Frameworks for the bundled LiveKit dylibs, and the libobs
+# @rpath fixup). Closes the "macOS packaging gap" in README.md. Must run
+# before the staging step below, which copies the finished bundle directory
+# -- add_custom_command(POST_BUILD) commands attached to the same target run
+# in the order they were registered.
+if(APPLE)
+    include(helpers)
+    stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle(${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME})
+endif()
+
 # --- staged, runnable layout ------------------------------------------------
 # Everything a human needs to copy into an OBS plugin directory ends up under
 # build/package/, with the LiveKit shared libraries and the licence files
@@ -68,17 +82,32 @@ set(STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/package")
 #   <config>/obs-studio/plugins/<name>/data/
 # so staging into bin/64bit makes build/package/ a straight drop-in.
 #
-# macOS is NOT this shape -- there OBS looks for a
+# macOS is a COMPLETELY different shape, not just "bin without 64bit": the
-# <name>.plugin/Contents/MacOS bundle -- and this build does not produce one.
+# same AddExtraModulePaths() passes GetConfigPath(...,
-# See the macOS packaging gap in README.md; the flat bin/ here is honest
+# "obs-studio/plugins/%module%.plugin") as the base, then
-# about being unfinished rather than pretending to be installable.
+# obs_add_module_path(base + "/Contents/MacOS", base + "/Contents/Resources")
+# -- i.e. OBS wants the ENTIRE <name>.plugin bundle dropped directly into
+# .../obs-studio/plugins/, not nested under a bin/ subdirectory the way
+# Linux/Windows are. So build/package/ on macOS holds the bundle itself at
+# its top level (build/package/<name>.plugin), not build/package/bin/....
+# stplugin_macos_finalize_bundle() (cmake/macos/helpers.cmake) makes
+# ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} an actual BUNDLE target for APPLE and also copies
+# obs-adapter/data/** into Contents/Resources/** -- see that file for why
+# Contents/Resources (not a sibling data/) is where OBS looks for this
+# module's data on macOS.
 if(APPLE)
-    set(STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DIR "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}/bin")
+    add_custom_command(TARGET ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} POST_BUILD
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}"
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E rm -rf "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}/${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME}.plugin"
+        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory
+            "$<TARGET_BUNDLE_DIR:${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME}>"
+            "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}/${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME}.plugin"
+        COMMENT "Staging the ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME}.plugin bundle into ${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}"
+        VERBATIM
+    )
 else()
     set(STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DIR "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}/bin/64bit")
-endif()
+    add_custom_command(TARGET ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} POST_BUILD
-
-add_custom_command(TARGET ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} POST_BUILD
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DIR}"
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy "$<TARGET_FILE:${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME}>" "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DIR}/"
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${LIVEKIT_SDK_RUNTIME_LIBS} "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_BIN_DIR}/"
@@ -86,9 +115,19 @@ add_custom_command(TARGET ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} POST_BUILD
         COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
             "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/data/locale/en-US.ini"
             "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}/data/locale/"
-    # Redistributing LiveKit's prebuilt binaries means shipping their licence
+        COMMENT "Staging plugin + LiveKit runtime libraries + locale data into ${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}"
-    # and notice with them. See third_party/livekit/README.md -- including
+        VERBATIM
-    # what upstream does NOT ship, which is an open question, not a solved one.
+    )
+endif()
+
+# Licence files: not something OBS's module loader looks for at all (unlike
+# the locale data above), so these always land in the same top-level spot
+# regardless of platform -- next to the bundle on macOS, next to bin/ on
+# Linux/Windows. Redistributing LiveKit's prebuilt binaries means shipping
+# their licence and notice with them; see third_party/livekit/README.md,
+# including what upstream does NOT ship, which is an open question, not a
+# solved one.
+add_custom_command(TARGET ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} POST_BUILD
     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}/licenses/livekit"
     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
         "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/third_party/livekit/LICENSE"
@@ -98,6 +137,6 @@ add_custom_command(TARGET ${STPLUGIN_PROJECT_NAME} POST_BUILD
     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
         "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE"
         "${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}/licenses/"
-    COMMENT "Staging plugin + LiveKit runtime libraries + licences into ${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}"
+    COMMENT "Staging licences into ${STPLUGIN_PACKAGE_DIR}"
     VERBATIM
 )