Notarizing when you're distributing libraries rather than apps

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Created Jan ’21

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Hello,

The company I work for develops programming libraries for use on macOS systems. I'm able to build these libraries and code sign them, but I don't know how to notarize them.

Our distribution mechanism is zip files downloaded from a customer-only website. Once downloaded the zip is just unzipped and it's ready to use.

Is there a practical way to notarize zip files that contain compiled libraries instead of fully-fledged macOS applications?

Namaste,

John

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Etresoft OP

Jan ’21

Why do you need to notarize them? Those libraries aren't being launched. They are being integrated into other apps, which presumably, would be notarized.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’21

You can notarise a zip archive full of libraries but, as Etresoft said, there’s not much point to this. These libraries are not run by the user directly and thus there’s no need to notarise them. Any developer who integrates these libraries into their product, and then distributes that to users, will need to do their own notarisation.

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