App rejected when uploaded to mac appstore

SDL Development
1

We’re trying to submit an SDL game to the Mac Appstore. But it gets rejected with the following message from apple:

"Guideline 2.5.1 - Performance - Software Requirements

Your app uses or references the following non-public or deprecated APIs:

Contents/Frameworks/SDL2_mixer.framework/Versions/A/SDL2_mixer
Symbols:
• _op_open_callbacks
• _op_head
• _op_seekable
• _op_pcm_total
• _op_pcm_seek
• _op_free
• _op_read
• _op_tags
• _op_pcm_tell

The use of non-public or deprecated APIs is not permitted on the App Store, as they can lead to a poor user experience should these APIs change and are otherwise not supported on Apple platforms."

Has anyone encountered this? Any solutions?

Edit: We are using ogg for music and sound effects but forgot to link to the (optional) ogg.framework/opus.framework. The game worked perfectly fine on our mac just linking to sdl2_mixer.framework (how is that even possible?). But maybe the missing frameworks is the reason for the rejection?

2

It was the missing frameworks that caused the rejection. Still confused about how the app could run on our own machine.

3

Do you have OPUS installed someone on your system? It was probably finding that.

4

Something to do with the paths of the libraries I think. I had this problem years ago and solved it by making a script, but there’s probably a better way. That was my question and solution: macos - Making Xcode embed necessary dylibs - Stack Overflow

5

On Linux and Windows is relatively straightforward to spin up some VM that has nothing to check if something runs in a clean environment.

I am using tart (https://tart.run/) to build my things in CI/CD pipelines, I haven’t played with it locally, but I am curious if I could use it to spin some clean macOS environment in my current Mac to test if the built app would work in an empty environment. For now I use the ask a friend approach.