Bundle the app for MacOS

Tyrrrz / DiscordChatExporter

Exports Discord chat logs to a file

MIT License

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Version

v2.43.3

Flavor

GUI (Graphical User Interface), CLI (Command-Line Interface)

Platform

OSX

Export format

No response

Steps to reproduce

Explained below

Details

If you try to run the app after downloading, it won't launch due to macOS's security policies. You need to manually bypass the app signing check to work around this issue: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter/discussions/1234#discussioncomment-9640812

Packaging the app as .app bundle may help resolve this issue. Ideally, we'd want to integrate the bundling stage in the existing CI process.

Checklist

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[X] I have made sure that this bug is reproducible on the latest version of the application
[X] I have provided all the information needed to reproduce this bug as efficiently as possible
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[ ] I have not read any of the above and just checked all the boxes to submit the issue

Commenting from the other thread, since I brought up the app bundle.

If you have an unsigned bundle, it is treated similarly to how Windows treats an unsigned .exe file. You have to right click -> open the first time in order to confirm that you want to run unsigned code, but after that it remembers the app and won't prompt you again.

I haven't done mac app stuff in a while, but iirc there's nothing magic about what xcode does when making a .app bundle. You just need the correct layout and an info.plist file that tells the OS how to set up the runtime.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000123i-CH101-SW19

Tyrrrz / DiscordChatExporter