Debugging Ableton Live

[leehu]

Hi, I’ve just updated latest OSX (10.14.6.2) and XCode will no longer start Live under the debugger. Anyone else having issues with this?

thx

[mcmartin]

Which exact version of Live are you debugging with?
If it is one of the latest Betas, you will have to re-sign it.

[leehu]

hi - thx for the reply. yes, it’s a beta. I’ve just tried the release and that works ok.

What do you mean by “resign” in this case? Is this something to do with the new notarisation coming into 10.15?

[mcmartin]

Yep, exactly. See the last 2 posts on this thread for more details:

Apple Gatekeeper notarised distributables

Hi Apple looks to be furthering gatekeeper protection with additional checks on distributed binaries, we can see some details about it here: https://developer.apple.com/developer-id/ and a little more from Ars here: https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/09/macos-10-14-mojave-the-ars-technica-review/10/#h3 It seems Apple wants to perform some kind of basic review of signed binaries and to then act as a notary on the developer’s signature, vouching for it not containing malware etc, so they can …

[leehu]

thanks - I’ll check that out. Wonder if there can be a Projucer update to automate this process…?

[ttg]

you can write a script and add it post build to debug builds.