Is it possible to build on mac without root access?

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#1

Hello.

I need to deploy my app to App Store, so i rent an online mac.
However it doesn’t have a root access.
I’ve installed Corona via drag’n’drop to desktop folder and want to make a native build. But i can’t because of error

line 5: /Users/user212106/Library/Application Support/Corona/Native/Corona/mac/bin/CoronaBuilder.app/Contents/MacOS/CoronaBuilder: No such file or directory
Exiting due to errors (above)
Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code
#2

Native build or a simulator build? In any case, you don’t need admin access but you also don’t have to rent a mac to build. You can use github actions or bitbucket pipelines or whatever your repo has. @vlad had fairly good instructions a while back and if you already have your keys you can even skip the key creations.

#3

Native build.
I think that admin access still need because i cant run a “Setup Corona Native”. It gives me error “No access to send events to Finder” or something like that.

Thank you for reply. I’ll search this intstructions

#4

It might require some work but that “Setup Corona Native” just creates some symlinks (not sure what MacOS calls it). You should be able to with a command build a native build. You should have to create a script that calls the underlying file and not the symlink (since you can’t make a symlink).

#5

Thank you.
I’m new at Mac, so i don’t understand which script i have to create :frowning:

#6

I can help you.

  1. Make sure you have all the files you need in a place you have access to. For this test, I put most of the files on the desktop.

  2. Create a text file. For my test, I called it “testAppParam.lua” and saved it on the desktop. In this file put this info but with your information:

return {
	appName = "testapp",
	platform = "ios",
	appVersion = "1.0",
	projectPath = "/Users/adriangomez/Desktop/testapp",
	dstPath = "/Users/adriangomez/Desktop/testappbuild/",
	certificatePath = "/Users/adriangomez/Desktop/testapp_prod.mobileprovision",
	customTemplate = "-angle",
}
  1. Then I ran this command:
/Applications/Corona-3660/Native/Corona/mac/bin/CoronaBuilder.app/Contents/MacOS/CoronaBuilder build --lua /Users/adriangomez/Desktop/testAppParam.lua
#7

Many thanks to you. But i decided not to build on MacOS for now :slight_smile:

#8

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