osascript dependencies

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#1

I need to ba able to run osascript on a netboot volume which has a minimalistic OS X (DeployStudio NetBoot-set). But apart from the osascript binary itself, which files do I need to add to the NetBoot image to be able to do “display dialog”?

I’ve tried adding the files I thought were needed, but no luck. And google doesn’t give me any answers either. The only thing I can find is on DeployStudio’s own forum that “you need to add AppleScript files to the netboot image” but nothing on which these files are. And I also found a python script that can display a dialog, but I don’t do python.

#2

I’m not sure what you mean by minimalistic but AppleScript isn’t a process like Finder than can be simply turned on and off. Also OSAScript (The command line utility) can’t do a display dialog because of the differences between an process and an application. So what you’ll need to do to display a dialog from the command line you’ll need to tell an existing application (you’re not an application but a process) to display the dialog for you like the Finder

tell application 'Finder" to display dialog "hello world!"
#3

Ok, so I’ll try to explain more deeply…

DeployStudio NetBoot sets are a stripped down OS X, without for example Finder. I have now copied the following files to the NetBoot set:

Finder.app
System Events.app
AppleScript.framework
AppleScript.component
AppleScript Runner.app
osascript
osalang
osacompile
osadecompile

And what I have found, you have to tell System Events to display dialog, otherwise it doesn’t permit you to do user interactions from the Terminal (osascript).
When I try to run a simple applescript with osascript on the NetBoot set, I always get the same error: “Expected end of line but found identifier. (-2741)”
The script is confirmed working on a “regular” startup volume with the same OS version.

So there are something missing, but I hace no clue what!

#4

I’ve no idea if your set-up will work or not, but the obvious omission is /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax, which supplies the ‘display dialog’ command.

#5

Thanks!
Added that and some other files, and now I get “execution error: An error of type -10810 has occured. (-10810)”

Update: I get the same error if I try “open “/System/Library/CoreServices/System Events.app””
So now I don’t think it’s an AppleScript/osascript error, rather a general system error…