Default folder for resources and css on macOS is really odd and no configure option available to set the right path about abaddon HOT 5 OPEN

@uowuo Could we make something sensible with this? I have it working now, but I did not succeed in making it recognize ${prefix}/share/abaddon path for resources – and had to dump the binary together with those two folders into a dedicated prefix. This is undesirable, though I could perhaps hack around that by adding a wrapper which would run from ${prefix}/bin and pull everything from wherever.

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this is the part responsible for getting the resources directory

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i didnt write it, but i think the macos code there is for when its in a .app form?

Possibly (this is not something I understand well), but the build does not produce an app bundle.

If ABADDON_RESOURCE_DIR can be passed to CMake so that is recognized and used by the build, that will solve the problem.
As a default value, I would expect a path relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (which is either chosen by a package system or manually by a user). Usually it will be ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/${name} for resources, or something similar. (As long as custom setting is possible, default behavior does not matter too much.)

If you would like the default installation to go into home folder, that can be done then by making it a default value for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX if it is not specified by a user.

P. S. I had to use wrappers to make this work, it is kinda ugly (though the first one, for libstdc++ case, is unavoidable):
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/d6a202a84122d1faa7105f2a360506343a93b81c/net/abaddon/Portfile#L107-L140

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Ouch, blame me haha. It's all been set up to work for it being packaged and me having no proper experience did it in a way that worked for me.

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I guess we need need this either to be configurable or the code to search for both (bundle paths and normal Unix paths).

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