On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:15, Andy Lee wrote: > On Mar 29, 2011, at 05:49 AM, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> > wrote: > > On 29.03.2011, at 09:22, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: >> But when I put it in a DMG, some testers (not all) can't install it! >> They get the error message "You cannot use the screen saver on this >> computer. Contact the developer ..." > > If you didn't say it works when you distribute as a ZIP, I'd expect this to > be a case where you have built only a 32-bit screen saver, and these testers > have 64-bit Macs (Screensavers are plug-ins, and the system runs a 64-bit > screen saver engine, so screen savers must be 64-bit or can't be loaded into > the engine). > > I found more info on this here > <http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1666/_index.html> and here > <http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2913>. But yeah, it's odd that the same > bundle, bitwise identical, does work. > > Are you sure you're building the application the same way for both cases? If > one's a debug build and the other is a release build, then that could explain > that you're not getting all architectures in one case. > > Also, is there any commonality in how the users with problems are doing the > install? For example, are they double-clicking the bundle? What if they try > dragging it to ~/Library/Screen Savers? > > When you send the bundle directly, do you tar it or zip it? I wonder if > there's something about the default permissions when you unzip something that > matters. > > Admittedly I'm flailing, just wondering what the common element is.
You can also do a 'lipo <path to the binary> -info' to check which architectures are in the binary. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laurent@nemesys-soft.com_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
