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Comment by watermelon0

3 months ago

You can still run unsigned software, but you need to approve 2? prompts, and also allow exception for every executable by going to Privacy & Security tab in settings.

IIRC there is a CLI command for achieving the same.

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saagarjha  3 months ago

You can’t run unsigned software on Apple silicon. Note that when you build your software if you use Apple’s tools it will inject an ad-hoc signature into the product.

  • yaris  3 months ago

    You very much _can_ run unsigned software on Apple silicon. At work my department has a bit less than 50 engineers with Macs (M1 to M4) and nobody complained that they can't build and run our product (using GCC from Homebrew, not Clang from Apple). But it involves some jumping through hoops, yes.

  • kragen  3 months ago

    That seems like it would interfere with reproducible builds.

    • saagarjha  3 months ago

      The signature that gets added is vaguely a hash of the binary. You probably want to look at the UUID that gets injected into your binary instead of this.