Export for MacOS and Upload to Steam

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The process was not clear for me but now it works so I want to share all settings/options:

  1. Export Mac Build. Here are my settings:

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  2. Create Mac Depot - Steam > Apps & Packages > Steamworks Admin > SteamPipe > Depots
    (and assign depot to your package)
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  3. Upload -:warning: IMPORTANT! :warning: DO NOT UPLOAD THE EXPORTED ZIP TO STEAM!
    I use the Steam command line tools for uploading. Before I do my upload, I extract the archive generated by Godot and delete the ZIP!
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This is the code for the auto-zip-extraction:
:warning:IMPORTANT!:warning: Do NOT use “e” as command after “7z” because it will extract all files IN the .app ! We do not want this. We want just the .app and .command out of the ZIP, that’s why I used “x” as command!

7z x cozy_space_survivors-mac.zip
del cozy_space_survivors-mac.zip

  1. Setup #1 - Steam > Apps & Packages > Store Admin
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  2. Setup #2 - Steam > Apps & Packages > Steamworks Admin
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  3. Setup #3 - Steam > Apps & Packages > Steamworks Admin > General Installation

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Publish all changes. Done.

If you support Cloud saves, you need root overwrite paths. Here are my paths:

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what? you mean to say we dont need a mac for developing our games to macos/ios?

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Yes (at least MacOS, no idea about iOS). When you export without xcode, you can not sign your app and this leads to errors, see: Running Godot apps on macOS — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

But: You can manually disable the MacOS Gatekeeper to run the app OR distribute via Steam and then Steam will handle this for you.

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that means we can export for MacOS without Xcode and mac?
thank you :slight_smile:

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Thanks! it really was handy :slight_smile:

Nice game btw, I had got some fun with your demo a few months ago!

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Thanks! The full version offers more shippies and i’m still patching it to add new nice features.

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Thank you kindly for the post and detailing your process!

Out of curiosity, why does it not work to upload to the depot as a zip file?

SteamCmd was a level of complexity I did not really have time to get into.

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Just to follow-up my own post, uploading to steam with SteamCmd was not that hard to learn, and very valuable in the long run…
However, I ran into issues deploying on macOS. I followed this tutorial precisely, but I’m thinking my issue was with GodotSteam. Also tried following this to the best of my ability: Mac Exporting - GodotSteam

Had some folks test it, and it was no good. My game runs fine on Windows and LInux, for reference.

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