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0.3.0-build148

we support signing and notarization of macOS DMG packages in Gradle plugin out of the box. See https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/tutorials/Signing_and_notarization_on_macOS. Please let us know how it works for you, and if documentation needs clarification or improvements.

AppImage

target format used to create .app files on Mac. With this update, it started throwing the following error

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unexpected target format for MacOS: AppImage
        at org.jetbrains.compose.desktop.application.internal.ConfigureApplicationKt.configurePackagingTasks(configureApplication.kt:78)
        at org.jetbrains.compose.desktop.application.internal.ConfigureApplicationKt.configureApplicationImpl(configureApplication.kt:30)
        at org.jetbrains.compose.ComposePlugin$apply$2.execute(ComposePlugin.kt:36)
        at org.jetbrains.compose.ComposePlugin$apply$2.execute(ComposePlugin.kt:17)

@olonho just to confirm. This means I'm going to need to pay a 100 annual fee right? No way around it? Just asking because I know you can deploy/sign ios apps without paying 100 for an apple dev account

That’s better be asked at Apple forums, I personally paid that fee.

@olonho thanks. will reach out to some apple forums.

@suresh the

AppImage

was not documented, so it was considered no one would use it as a

targetFormats

argument. The problem with it is that the name is too generic and confusing, and its not really a packaging format. In reality

AppImage

was meant to create a prepackaged app on any platform (

.app

is not a file format on Mac; it is just a directory containing executables & libraries). In order to avoid confusion around

TargetFormat.AppImage

, the value was prohibited to be used as an argument of

targetFormats

. Instead, there are always two tasks available:

createDistributable

and

runDistributable

to create and run a prepackaged app. I will clarify the error message to reflect that.