builds on OS other than your own

[Scribbles]

so this has to have been asked before... and i KNOW that the documentation says that it's possible -- but if I'm on a PC and make a mac build will there be any issues with it? I have no way of testing it since I don't have a mac or know anyone who has a mac... I've put a lot of work into changing the icons, and trying to make it look like a real polished game and I'd feel awful if that didn't translate over > <; or if it didn't work somehow... I know it creates zip files and I believe I read somewhere that if I unzipped that file it would no longer work for a mac - is that true as well? (i thought about putting the game on steam but I believe i'd have to have builds for all OS, and I don't know that they accept zipped files?), also are any of these problems present with Linux? (I feel like they aren't but please correct me otherwise!!)

Sorry my game is super close to release and maybe it's just pre release jitters but any advice or answers would be greatly appreciated

[Imperf3kt]

My understanding is that a game compiled on Windows or Linux, will work on either as both are x86 but mac must be compiled on an actual mac because the hardware is different.

If you compile a game for linux and unzip it, then rezip it, you lose the permissions info and the game won't run on a linux os anymore. You can unzip it though, I unzip all my games on a Windows computer before transferring them to linux and get no errors.

[Scribbles]

My understanding is that a game compiled on Windows or Linux, will work on either as both are x86 but mac must be compiled on an actual mac because the hardware is different.

If you compile a game for linux and unzip it, then rezip it, you lose the permissions info and the game won't run on a linux os anymore. You can unzip it though, I unzip all my games on a Windows computer before transferring them to linux and get no errors.

That's what I was worried about > < thanks for the heads up!

[Karl_C]

My understanding is that a game compiled on Windows or Linux, will work on either as both are x86 but mac must be compiled on an actual mac because the hardware is different

Mac is x86 too for a while already. No more PowerPc CPU...

[Scribbles]

Found this link about the recent updates to renpy:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/changelo ... sh-support

which talks about needing a mac and a Developer ID Application certificate to work with mac's Sierra OS -- > < so I guess a mac build is out until I get my hands on a mac

(updating this in case anyone stumbles upon it later)

[PyTom]

You can make the mac build, it's just that it will be harder for your players to run it, since they'll have to disable the parts of mac os meant to prevent software that hasn't paid the apple tax from running.

[Scribbles]

You can make the mac build, it's just that it will be harder for your players to run it, since they'll have to disable the parts of mac os meant to prevent software that hasn't paid the apple tax from running.

oh, I'll keep looking into it > < that's rly lame of apple