How do I codesign an App?

[Graham Samuel]

I really believe that it would boost LC in the marketplace if it could offer comprehensive and up-to-date advice about deployment. Software design and coding is one thing (and for me, LC is pretty much the ideal platform for it - anyone can code!) but it is of very limited use if one can’t publish apps in the real world, not only on Macs, but Windows, iOS, Android… (and I dare say Linux, but I don’t know anything about that world).

It seems to me that Apple make it really difficult for developers to produce stuff that ‘just works’ in their environments (OSX, iOS), but they are not the only ones. To take a simple example, I have a Windows app that gives a warning every single time it is launched.

If I had more skill, I would attempt some level of assistance on this (“The LiveCode Deployment Manual”) but for now I just have to pick up scraps like everyone else.

Anyone up for that project? It would have to be associated with Commercial LiveCode, since those that want to make money out of apps will be using those versions.

Hoping against hope.

Graham


> On 26 Oct 2016, at 02:33, Trevor DeVore <lists at mangomultimedia.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:48 PM, tbodine <bodine at bodinetraininggames.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> But even with successful signing, Apple manages to rub salt into the wound
>> with this bug.... If you codesign for Mac as a third party developer for
>> distribution outside of the app store, then people installing it may still
>> get a message that says "can't be opened because it is from an unidentified
>> developer". Unidentified? WTF!
>> 
> 
> You can sign an app that will download from your own website and install
> without any issues. I’ve done it with a number of apps.
> 
> Monte and I put together some code that code signs an executable. It is
> used in the code that packages up an app built with the GLX App Framework.
> The code could be pulled out and used independently of the framework
> packager though. It is a simple call that looks like this:
> 
> signAndStrip thePathToAppBundle, theCertificateName, isMAS
> 
> It would be great to have the IDE handle this when people build
> applications but right now the code I have will only run on OS X. Maybe
> that isn’t a big issue though.
> 
> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
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