Notarizing PB-Apps

[jamirokwai]

Hi there,

maybe, I accomplished the notarization of my PureBasic-App. It's for M1-Macs, please try it out.

The Process is very easy :-/

0. Register for the Developer Program at Apple (99 Bucks/year), may be also working with a free account. You get certificates and stuff, which are important for this. So you have a developer Apple-ID and the "Developer ID Application: xxx"

1. Create your myapp.app

2. Register a new bundle-id (e.g. com.ducks-on-the-water.retro-painter) and create an App (that may be omitted, but I created it)
https://developer.apple.com/account/res ... add/bundle

3. Add an App-specific password in your developers Apple-ID
https://appleid.apple.com/account/manage

4. Codesign your App

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codesign --force --options runtime --timestamp --sign "Developer ID Application: xxx" "/path/to/myapp.app"

5. zip it to my myapp.app.zip

6. notarise it

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xcrun notarytool submit "/path/to/myapp.app.zip" --apple-id "the one used in step 2" --password "from step 3" --team-id "find in step 3"

you will get an ID

7. after a few minutes, have a look into the log

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xcrun notarytool log "ID from step 6" --apple-id "the one used in step 2" --password "from step 3" --team-id "find in step 3"

8. unzip it

9. staple it

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xcrun stapler staple "/path/to/myapp.app"

10 check it

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spctl --assess -vv --type install "/path/to/myapp.app"

11. zip it again and ship it!

That's it. Apples Transporter.app only accepts .PKG. If I succeed in signing and notarizing .PKG as well, I will edit the next post!

[jamirokwai]

reserved

[jamirokwai]

If you want to combine the M1 and the x64-binary, use LIPO on the command line.

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lipo -create "/path/to/m1.app/Contents/MacOS/m1" "/path/to/x64.app/Contents/MacOS/x64" -output "universal"

You can check the app with

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file ./universal

Now you can sign and notarize the App. See first post.



Edit, because of mrbungles question below.

You have to copy the file universal into the .app-bundle, under Contents/MacOS. If you user the bundle /path/to/m1.app/Contents/MacOS/m1, replace the file m1 with the file universal, but rename it to m1.

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file ./path/to/m1.app/Contents/MacOS/universal"

spat out this:

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./universal (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
./universal (for architecture arm64):  Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

[Fred]

I did the same for the PB package and it was really a pain to do.. Thanks for the detailed guide, it can help.

[mrbungle]

Thanks for posting this. I was able to generate a universal build of a simple app but it didn't execute properly (it loaded but nothing else). Is there anything else we need to do to get this to work properly? Like set some permissions or flags?

[jamirokwai]

Thanks for posting this. I was able to generate a universal build of a simple app but it didn't execute properly (it loaded but nothing else). Is there anything else we need to do to get this to work properly? Like set some permissions or flags?

Hey, mrbungle!

No, no permissions or flags were needed on my Mac.
See the post above. I added a few sentences. It's working this way!

[mrbungle]

Ah ok. This makes sense now, yeah I think I got it to work!

Thanks!