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mac-crafter
A tool to easily build a fully-functional Nextcloud Desktop Client for macOS.
It will create the application bundle with the option to sign it, which is required by Apple when running and debugging the file provider module.
System requirements
- Mac OS > 11
- XCode
- Python
Step by step usage
- Clone the desktop client in your mac OS
https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop.git
- Build the desktop client:
cd admin/osx/mac-crafter
swift run mac-crafter
3.1 Sign the application bundle by adding the following parameter:
-c <Development or developer codesigning certificate name>
The whole command will look like this:
swift run mac-crafter -c "Apple Development: <certificate common name>"
The resulting app bundle will be placed under the product folder in the mac-crafter folder.
Tip
3.2 Build the file provider module with this option:
--build-file-provider-module
3.3 Disable the auto-updater:
--disable-autoupdater
3.4 Manually set the architecture you are building for:
--arch arm64
The options are x86_64 and arm64.
How to build the app bundle for arm and intel
To achieve this we are using a Python script called make_universal.py which bundles together the arm64 and Intel builds into one universal app bundle. This script can be found under admin/osx. You can invoke it like so:
python admin/osx/make_universal.py <x86 build path> <arm64 build path> <final target path>