Looking for some assistance and having an Apple Signing Certificate for our Audio Units Plugin.
There are many different types of audio unit plug-ins. Most folks who ask questions like this are working with old school plug-ins (for example, .component and .vst3) rather than the new app extension (.appex) stuff. Old school plug-ins are only supported on the Mac and are directly distributed, rather than going through the App Store. That means they use Developer ID signing.
IMPORTANT Developer ID signing identities are precious. See The Care and Feeding of Developer ID.
As to how you sign them, that depends on what tools you’re using to build them. If you’re using Xcode then it will happily sign them for day-to-day development, but the standard Xcode workflows may not work for distributing audio unit plug-ins. In most cases you’ll need to sign them manually.
The exact process for that depends on how your plug-in is laid out, but you’ll find general advice in:
If you have specific follow-up questions, feel free to put them in a reply here.
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