Asset bundles for use on both PC/Mac?

Questions & Answers
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Hello! I had a quick question about asset bundles. From the documentation on http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/abfaq.html, it seems to suggest that asset bundles built for any Standalone player will work for each of the other Standalone players. Is this true?

In code, I’m calling this:

BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundleExplicitAssetNames( objects, objectNames, saveLocation, BuildAssetBundleOptions.CollectDependencies, BuildTarget.StandaloneWindows );

As we’re now trying to expand to a Mac build as well, I tried switching the target to

BuildTarget.StandaloneOSXUniversal

Is this necessary? The issue is that I am developing on a PC, and exporting asset bundles to the StandaloneOSXUniversal format doesn’t seem to be supported.

Thanks!

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So, investigation has revealed that an asset pack built in the windows editor will indeed work on both a PC and Mac standalone build. There was no need to switch the build target from BuildTarget.StandaloneWindows to BuildTarget.StandaloneOSXUniversal. BuildTarget.StanadloneWindows works on both platforms.

The problem I was running into had to do with getting the File I/O right, which is slightly different on both platforms.