If you’re using a third-party development environment, consult its support resources for advice before continuing. Many third-party development environments have their own strategies for signing and packaging the products they build. Note If you find this post a little abstract, and would prefer to follow a concrete example, see Manual Code Signing Example.Ĭonsult Resources for Third-Party Development Environments In these cases you must manually sign and package your product. For example:Īn app that’s distributed outside of the Mac App Store on a disk imageĪ product that has to be installed via an installer packageĪn app that uses a third-party development environment However, not all Mac products can be distributed this way. See Xcode Help > Distribute your app for the details. The best way to sign and package an app is via Xcode: Build a version of your app to distribute using Xcode’s Product > Archive command, and then package that archive for your distribution channel via the Organizer.

IMPORTANT None of the following has been formally reviewed, so it’s not official Apple documentation. Or, if you want one-on-one help, open a DTS tech support incident and we can pick things up in that context. I’ve locked this thread, so just start a new thread tagging it with Code Signing, Notarization, or Gatekeeper.

And if have any questions about this, it’s probably best to ask them here on DevForums.

If you have any corrections, feel free to get in touch with me directly (my email address is in my signature). And rather than keep that to myself, I’m posting it here for everyone’s benefit. The instructions for how to sign and package a Mac product for distribution are rather scattered, so I’ve written them all down in one place. I spend a lot of time helping Mac developers with notarisation and Gatekeeper problems, and many of these problems are caused by incorrect code signing. I’ve left the original post here just for the record.Īpple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware See the preamble in Creating Distribution-Signed Code for Mac for more context. IMPORTANT This post has been replaced by two shiny new posts:Ĭreating Distribution-Signed Code for Mac

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