Resigning ableton for debugging

General JUCE discussion
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Anyone know why this would fail (from @McMartin 's script);

+ codesign --force --options runtime --sign - --entitlements /tmp/debug_entitlements.plist '/Applications/Ableton Live 10 Suite.app/Contents/MacOS/Live'
/Applications/Ableton Live 10 Suite.app/Contents/MacOS/Live: replacing existing signature
/Applications/Ableton Live 10 Suite.app/Contents/MacOS/Live: code object is not signed at all
Issues with M1
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I’m just bringing this thread back to life because this has cropped up again as an issue.

@jimc hoping you sorted this out – I believe the issue is that you just call the code sign call on the .app instead of /Contents/MacOS/Live

But – while this script worked for Ableton 10 – it appears to no longer be working for Ableton 11.

Has anyone been able to resign ableton 11 to allow codesigning? seems editing the entitlements and adding com.apple.security.get-task-allow then resigning no longer sorts it out.

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What exactly do you mean by this? Calling codesign fails? Debugging fails?

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if you run:

codesign --force --sign "DEV_ID" --options runtime --entitlements new_ableton_11.entitlements --timestamp Ableton\ Live\ 11\ Suite.app

you get:

Ableton Live 11 Suite.app: replacing existing signature
Ableton Live 11 Suite.app: resource fork, Finder information, or similar detritus not allowed

and the debugger still fails to attach

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Did you perhaps browse into the app bundle in Finder before executing codesign? This article suggests that that might cause this, and says removing extended attributes is the solution:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1940/_index.html

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Thanks Howard,

I tried running:

xattr -cr Ableton\ Live\ 11\ Suite.app

but It seems that corrupted Ableton. However – after I reinstalled it appeared to work 0.o

I don’t believe I browsed into it but perhaps that was affecting.

Thank you!

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