Export tool

[Lindon]

@SteveRiggs you should be able to download the command line tools from your Apple developer account - that Should I think include altool - but you will have to put it somewhere that Daves utility can see it...

[SteveRiggs]

@Lindon Ok cheers I'll look for that now....

I just found an app called Transporter which apparently contains altool. I just tried installing that and it also needs 10.13.6 or later so thats no good either for me on 10.13.5. It might be useful for someone else though who is on a later version that mine.

[Lindon]

@SteveRiggs can you not install 10.13.6? Can you not find it? - try this:

Xcode want install on high Sierra … | Apple Developer Forums

(developer.apple.com)

[SteveRiggs]

@Lindon I've tried updating to 10.13.6 a good few times now and it never works. It ends up freezing the mac on a black screen and when I get it recovered back to 10.13.5 so it works again, it then wont ever power down without holding the power button unless you go in and do some sudo sorcery removing files from the registry. Had to do that a few times now. I'm stuck on 10.13.5 on this machine :(

[DanH]

@SteveRiggs What's the machine? Can you def not upgrade the OS? Maybe check DOSDude if you haven't already...

[SteveRiggs]

Thanks @DanH , I'm looking into DOSDude now...

I'm not sure if I can upgrade just to High Sierra 10.13.6 from 10.13.5 though. I don't really want to open the Catalina can of worms just yet while I'm in the middle of finishing a load of projects just incase everything breaks. I've been hearing plenty of horror stories :man_zombie:

This is the machine I'm running at the moment...

[DanH]

@SteveRiggs Mojave is where you want to be ideally (for now). Still supports 32bit (sort of) and HISE all working nicely.

If your HD is removable you could try and do a test run at upgrading on a different HD. Assuming there are no firmware updates that cld set you back.

Anyway Dosdude will have the answers hopefully.

[SteveRiggs]

@d-healey I'm having a go at building installers on Windows now and have a new conundrum to figure out. I'm wondering if you'd experienced anything similar when testing...

When I try and add an installer job to the queue, it's pops up a message saying 'Inno Setup 6 Installation Not Found'

I do already have Inno Setup 6 installed so do I need to do something to point the exporter app to it?

I did notice that Inno setup is installed as 32bit. Could that be the problem?

I'm trying to find information about how to install it as 64bit or how to change the settings in Windows so it installs as 64bit as default but I'm struggling to find anything...

[Lindon]

@DanH said in Export tool:

@SteveRiggs Mojave is where you want to be ideally (for now). Still supports 32bit (sort of) and HISE all working nicely.

If your HD is removable you could try and do a test run at upgrading on a different HD. Assuming there are no firmware updates that cld set you back.

Anyway Dosdude will have the answers hopefully.

it seems it does.. http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

[SteveRiggs]

@Lindon @DanH Cheers fella's. Taking a look at this now...

[d.healey]

@SteveRiggs said in Export tool:

When I try and add an installer job to the queue, it's pops up a message saying 'Inno Setup 6 Installation Not Found'

As always, check github for reported issues ;) - https://github.com/davidhealey/hise-exporter/issues/6

[DanH]

@Lindon the guy's a legend. I recently sold my 2010 Mac Pro which was running Mojave thanks to him. Could have gone to Catalina too but didn't fancy it...

[SteveRiggs]

Thanks @d-healey. That seems to have done the trick :) Running new builds now... :crossed_fingers:

[SteveRiggs]

@DanH Nice! I definitely need to try and get Mojave running then.

Do you reckon that I could install the DOSDude patcher for Mojave onto an external drive and just temporarily switch boot drives keeping my High Sierra install intact so I can switch back and forth between them?

[DanH]

@SteveRiggs That's what I'd try to do, but be wary of any firmware updates contained in the Mojave patch that could prevent High Sierra working. Ultimately though, when you've got Mojave working there should be no reason to return to High Sierra.

You'll have to weigh up the risk and if your method might work or not - I've always just gone for it on the system drive whilst using he external as a complete back up drive (just in case), because firmware updates were always necessary. I guess search some forums on the issue.

[SteveRiggs]

Thanks @DanH. I left a backup running overnight so I'll do a bit of googling today and see what I can find...

[LeeC]

@d-healey is there anyway to add in the option to overwrite existing files when using an installer built with your HISE Exporter tool on a mac?

At the moment...

• If you have pre-existing plugins in the folders shown below (let's call them version 1.0 of a plugin)

• You then build an installer with Hise Exporter containing version 2.0 of the same plugin and you run the final installer to completion

The result is that the files are not overwritten and version 1.0 is retained.

Hope this makes sense and again, what a great tool!

ps I haven't checked behaviour on Windows yet.

[LeeC]

I know that HISE Exporter builds off Packages on a Mac...
I just noticed the following setting:

Is there a way to add in this option in the exporter app?
Or maybe setting it to be enabled by default would be my preference.

Cheers

[d.healey]

Are you saying when you build a new installer you want it to overwrite any existing installers in the packages folder?

[LeeC]

@d-healey no I was talking about the behaviour of the final built, signed installer created by the HISE exporter...

When you run this installer pkg it doesn't overwrite existing plugins in their corresponding destinations:

Components
VST
VST3

If old plugin files (version 1) already exist in these folders, running the installerV2.pkg through to completion does not replace them with the new version 2 plugins.