[Interest] Fw: Aw: Re: codesign issue with Qt6.9.1

[Nelson, Michael]

Hello,

I just ran into similar using 6.9.3. I too moved signing out of separate step with “--deep” enabled and into macdeployqt6 without the deep option. This enabled me to successfully notarize. My understanding is that “--deep" is to be avoided generally, as it can lead to unexpected/unneeded outcomes. Google/Copilot suggests it is known to break Apple notarization because “Apple's notarization process expects a specific structure and signing order. --deep can violate these expectations”.

Perhaps you need --deep nevertheless but thought I’d point out my experience here.

Best regards,
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Subject: [Interest] Fw: Aw: Re: codesign issue with Qt6.9.1

Hi all, see subject – with Qt6. 9. 1 now I sign this way: macdeployqt my. app -codesign="myAccount" and then codesign --options=runtime --entitlements ./deployment/entitlements. xml —force ./my. app -s "myAccount" checking this via codesign --verify

Hi all,

see subject – with Qt6.9.1 now I sign this way:

macdeployqt my.app -codesign="myAccount"

and then

codesign --options=runtime --entitlements ./deployment/entitlements.xml —force ./my.app -s "myAccount"

checking this via

codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 ./myApp.app

it says "valid on disc" - so all is fine.

However, now a new issue comes up: When I zip it and load it up to notarise it via:

xcrun notarytool submit myApp.zip --keychain-profile MYKEYCHAIN --wait

then it eventually fails with:

status: invalid

Thus, I went back to Qt6.5.3 and signed in the same way and also received the INVALID status at the very end.

Deploying and Signing via:

macdeployqt my.app
codesign --options=runtime --entitlements ./deployment/entitlements.xml —deep ./my.app -s "myAccount"

does work out and leads to valid status but unfortunately this does not work out wiqht Qt6.9.1 because it refuses to take the --deep statement.

Can anyone advise how to achieve VALID status with the above structure using Qt6.9 ?

Thanks and
best

Alex

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. September 2025 um 20:49
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Betreff: Aw: Re: [Interest] codesign issue with Qt6.9.1
Hello Kai,

>>Any reason you don’t use macdeployqt -codesign=“My dev account” ? This should do deep signing...

when I do this and I check the result via

codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 ./myApp.app

it looks fine:

./myApp.app: valid on disk
./myApp.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement

 but indeed I need to include the entitlements:

--entitlements ./deployment/entitlements.xml

which seems to not work when combining it via macdeployqt or am I mistaken on this ?

Any further help appeciated,
thanks beforehand and
best

Alex

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. September 2025 um 17:44
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>On 17/09/2025 8:31 pm, Alexander Carôt via Interest wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just upgraded from Qt6.5.3 to Qt 6.9.1 – it's all fine except that now the codesigning fails. I typically do:
>>
>> macdeployqt My.app
>>
>> codesign --options=runtime --entitlements ./deployment/entitlements.xml --deep ./My.app -s "My dev account"
>
> According to the manual, --deep is deprecated - probably because it’s
> unreliable. You're expected to recurse all of the frameworks yourself, I
> think.

Any reason you don’t use macdeployqt -codesign=“My dev account” ? This should do deep signing...

>I don't know why codesign is so bad. But also I'm surprised that Qt is
> still shipping the official binaries unsigned.

Huh, they are signed?

Regards

Kai
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