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Unity putting .meta files into bundle directories

Discussion in 'macOS' started by Anotheryeti, Feb 28, 2020.

  1. Anotheryeti

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    Under Catalina, signed bundles are listed as corrupted once unity adds in meta files in the subdirectories, and they cannot be re-signed due to the meta files causing an incorrect bundle layout.

    Since they're stripped in builds, it doesn't make a difference, but it means that native libraries in bundles can't be used in-editor in Catalina. The OS will declare the library is mangled and throw it in the trash.

    Anybody know how to prevent this? Is there a way to just tell unity to not meta file a directory?
     
    Anotheryeti, Feb 28, 2020
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  2. Anotheryeti

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    Nevermind, mystery solved. It looks like unity only does this if you don't have your command line developer tools correctly installed, which is the case for anybody who upgrades to catalina and hasn't dealt with them being moved to zsh directories.

    It would be great if there was a notification about this instead of just breaking people's projects.
     
    Anotheryeti, Feb 28, 2020
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  3. Foriero

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    I have command line tools installed but still get metafiles in the bundle. :-(
     
    Foriero, Mar 18, 2020
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  4. andrews_unity

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    We are looking into this bug, in that we know it causes issues with the editor and such when Gatekeeper is enabled. Essentially whats happening here is the Asset Importing system just sees a bundle as a folder and trys to import its content. We are looking into how to resolve this issue properly.
     
    andrews_unity, Mar 21, 2020
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  5. Foriero

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    Thank you Andrew, I sent you an email describing also issue with "lib" prefix in dylib libraries. Example. We have NET library that maps DllImport["bass"] The thing is that dylibs are usually exported as libbass.dylib which means Unity can not correctly see and call the library because the name is different.
     
    Foriero, Mar 22, 2020
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  6. andrews_unity

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    We shall also fix the lib prefix issue, as we already do this for Linux so we can just add support for it on MacOS as well.
     
    andrews_unity, Mar 22, 2020
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  7. AndyMartin458

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    Any update on the progress on using a dylib in editor in catalina?
     
    AndyMartin458, Apr 23, 2020
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  8. andrews_unity

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    The lib issue has been resolved, though I think it hasn’t landed in 2019.3 yet.
     
    andrews_unity, Apr 24, 2020
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  9. dnyabuti

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    Any status update on this issue? Thanks
     
    dnyabuti, May 26, 2021
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  10. doctorpangloss

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    This issue still occurs in 2021.2.3f1
     
    doctorpangloss, Nov 25, 2021
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