Sean (Jun 23 2025 at 06:00): Sean (Jun 23 2025 at 06:00):Been working quietly but making headway on reviving the Mac binary build, learning what all we need to do to ship a proper installer. Our old make_pkg and make_dmg scripts where both out of date (pkg more than dmg), but the biggest glaring omission is code signing. The build is clean and is passing make test across the board (for 7.40.2 and latest). Working now to sign the binaries+libs, pkg installer, and dmg, as well as what script or cmake updates we can make to help automate this.
Erik (Jul 03 2025 at 19:08):out of curiosity... I'm assuming code signing means an SSL cert, can the site cert or one generated by eff certbot work?
Erik (Jul 03 2025 at 19:10):if it's an apple dev cert, I think that's $100/yr
Sean (Jul 05 2025 at 22:17):I'm still reading through their dev docs, but from what I could tell -- looks like it's possible to create a self-signed trustable binary app that at least avoids all the warnings and restrictions on download. I think it might still require registering the cert with apple, but unclear if that's a general requirement.
Sean (Jul 30 2026 at 04:39):dusting off this ol' thread, I just about have the 7.44.0 release ready for Mac. It's a single drag-n-drop app bundle, now with a snazzy new application launcher since it'd be weird otherwise.
Sean (Jul 30 2026 at 04:41):
Pavel Jansa (Aug 08 2026 at 16:56):Cool. Will there be release for x86_64 architecture?
Sean (Aug 20 2026 at 05:56):@Pavel Jansa I will either need to get someone else to build it, enlist and dust off one of my old macs, or figure out cross-compilation.. maybe even eventually geting to fat universal binaries again. of late, the focus has been on simply getting binary release going consistently and finally modernizing the GUIs.
Pavel Jansa (Aug 20 2026 at 06:42):@Sean I have Intel Mac so I could give it a try, but so far I haven't figured out the way how to build 7.44.0 release.
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