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bpteague / OS X Code Signing Pyinstaller.md

Last active May 7, 2025 18:55 — forked from txoof/OS X Code Signing Pyinstaller.md

PyInstaller recipe for codesigning an OSX .app bundle

This worked as of Feb 17 2025, on OSX Sonoma 14.7.2, using PyInstaller 6.12.0. And this packaged a very nontrivial app, which you can now download from https://cytoflow.readthedocs.io.

Create a developer account with Apple
- https://developer.apple.com and shell out $99 for a developer account
- Wait a day or so for your developer account to be activated.
Download and install XCode from the App Store.
- open XCode and install all of the command-line tools when it asks.
Create a certificate signing request (CSR)