Electron-builder: Cannot build for mac on windows.

Created on 16 Aug 2018  路  3Comments  路  Source: electron-userland/electron-builder


  • Version:
    20.22.0

    3.0.3
  • Target:
    Mac


    OS: windows
    I want to building for mac.
    cli yarn release --linux --win,building package is ok
    but cli yarn release --mac , terminal log this Build for macOS is supported only on macOS, please see https://electron.build/multi-platform-build ,why is that?
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picture yangjunfocus

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Not the maintainer, but my own reading between the lines follows.

Code signing of mac applications can only be done on mac, and macOS licensing terms limit virtualization of macOS to apple hardware only so it's unlikely that many users are building against virtualized macOS environments from a Windows host.

picture benjamincburns on 21 Aug 2018
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Not the maintainer, but my own reading between the lines follows.

Code signing of mac applications can only be done on mac, and macOS licensing terms limit virtualization of macOS to apple hardware only so it's unlikely that many users are building against virtualized macOS environments from a Windows host.

benjamincburns picture benjamincburns on 21 Aug 2018
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It's explained clearly in the docs that this is not possible due to restrictions from Apple. This is not going to be fixed.

Slapbox picture Slapbox on 31 Oct 2018
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Duplicates #2359

develar picture develar on 31 Oct 2018
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