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godot-valet

Godot release management application for building and publishing projects to itch.io via single click · By poplava

Export to MacOS

A topic by Arvid ☠️ created Jul 13, 2023 Views: 122 Replies: 5
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Since I watched your YT videos where you’re using Windows, I assume you’re not having an Apple device, right? Thus I can understand if you just can’t build and test a MacOS version without fearing everything breaks. Let me ask you anyway. Is it likely that Valet will be available for MacOS at some point?

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Honestly, it’s open source and you are probably also a Godot user otherwise this project would not be of use to you. You can just download or clone the source and export it to mac yourself. No Mac gatekeeping issues since you built it on the same machine, no other warnings ;)

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Oh, wait. I didn’t see the link to the repository. Thanks for pointing out, will have a closer look. 😘

(The gatekeeper isn’t a problem for me anyway since I’ve spent that money and got a developer account recently.)

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…Oh, yes. Stupid me couldn’t even read the whole description text where the GitHub repo was linked:
https://github.com/graydwarf/godot-valet

Thanks again. 😅

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Okay, today I tried it and wanted to leave a short note about it.

Long story short, there’s a good reason for not having a MacOS export, Godot Valet is just not ready-to-use for MacOS users.

It needs some adjustments in the version manager part of Valet at least. Selecting the path to Godot executable in the create-godot-version-dialog.tscn needs to function differently, because the file dialog currently filters by .exe files which isn’t suitable for MacOS, not to speak about the fact that something like the “Godot.app” file actually isn’t a file on MacOS, but a directory. That would require some more changes under the hood, I guess.

Who knows what else needs to be done to make everything work as expected. So it’s not only the export itself which is missing. (Nonetheless a very cool tool, I think, regardless of the fact I can’t actually use it!)

Before someone asks, unfortunately I am lacking some time to help out fixing that. Thus some other Apple users need to jump in. 🙂

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Ack! Sorry for late response! I didn't get any notifications about these comments. My bad. Anyway, everyone in my family has a mac except for me so I'll see what I can do.