Mac builds fail without error - no files produced

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On Windows 10, I’m using:
Version: 2020.3.16f1.844 Personal1
Revision: 2020.3/staging 049d6eca3c44
Built: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 21:57:10 GMT

I can do a Windows build without issue.

When I try a Mac or Linux build, the build process progresses just as the Windows builds do, however, the progress meter just disappears and when I check the build folder nothings there. There’s no built files and there’s no errors in the editor and no alerts/error messages.

I opened Unity Hub and it shows that both Mac and Linux build support is already installed.

I’m baffled. Anyone have any ideas?

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@I51 It does not seem reasonable to expect a MacOs build would be possible on a Windows system (as least it wasn’t the last time I checked); and (from experience) even Windows build on MacOS is possible only, if you go Mono and not IL2CPP, yet it is possible or even probable not everything shall work as intended; having said so, development and compilation are two different matters and its best to build on the target platform.

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Hey Ubrano, thanks for your reply. With some help, I was able to get both my Mac and Linux builds built on my Windows laptop. Here’s the discussion about it https://answers.unity.com/questions/1945349/mac-linux-builds-fail-do-not-produce-build-files-w.html?childToView=1945564#answer-1945564.

For this particular issue, I think Unity Hub may have been the problem (I ensured I had all logs displaying, and the error logs showed up when I upgraded Unity Hub).

But yeah, if you can overcome Unity’s “challenges”, you can build for all major OS’s and architectures on one Windows Laptop.

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