mac-codesigner project

Commandline utility to not going insane when codesigning and notarizing application for Apple Devices.

This utility allows to:

• Codesign your applications
• Package as DMG
• Package as PKG
• Notarize the DMG and PKG
• Staple DMG and PKG artifact

Synopsis

To print all available commandline options

./mac-codesigner-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-runner -h

Example:

./mac-codesigner-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-runner  --app-path=/path/to/my/Sample.app \
 --developer-certificate-key=1111111111111111 \
 --with-dmg \
 --with-pkg \
 --installer-certificate-key=1111111111 \
 --pkg-identifier=my.application.identifier.pkg \
 --entitlements=/path/to/entitlements.plist \
 --with-notarization \
 --notarization-primary-bundle-id=my.application.id \
 [email protected] \
 --notarization-password="johndoe-secret"
 --with-staple

Prequisits

• Make sure you have xcode command line utilities installed

  sudo xcode-select --install

• Create an "App-Specific password for altool" Apple Instructions - Use Safari - Firefox nor Chrome worked for me
  • Name it Developer-altool
  • Save the password created we you need to pass it to as the --notarization-password
• Create 2 certificates at Apple Developer
  • Developer ID Application
  • Developer ID Installer
• Add them to your "KeyChain Access" Application

Acknowledgement

There are other utilities which helped me implement this or provided useful information. One could argue that I suffer from the NIH-Syndrom but I found it interesting to get something done with Quarkus and GraalVM to create a native binary so for me it was more of a research project teaching about this tech-stack.

Similar utilities:

• codesign
• gon
• Eclipse CBI Signing
• Eclipse CBI Notarization

Sites / Articles I found useful while implementing this:

• Stackoverflow Question
• BlogPost on notarizing Java

Building

The application can be packaged using:

./mvnw package

It produces the quarkus-run.jar file in the target/quarkus-app/ directory. Be aware that it’s not an über-jar as the dependencies are copied into the target/quarkus-app/lib/ directory.

Creating a native executable

You can create a native executable using:

./mvnw package -Pnative

Or, if you don't have GraalVM installed, you can run the native executable build in a container using:

./mvnw package -Pnative -Dquarkus.native.container-build=true

You can then execute your native executable with: ./target/mac-codesigner-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-runner

If you want to learn more about building native executables, please consult https://quarkus.io/guides/maven-tooling.html.