# Build & package





Recipes for turning a Pear project into artifacts you can hand to users.

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  <Card href="/pear/how-to/operate-an-app/build-and-package/build-desktop-distributables" title="Build desktop distributables" description="Produce signed macOS, Windows, and Linux artifacts for a Pear Electron app." />

  <Card href="/pear/how-to/operate-an-app/build-and-package/distribute-as-binary" title="Distribute as a binary" description="Ship a small bootstrap binary that pulls the latest version from the swarm." />

  <Card href="/pear/how-to/operate-an-app/build-and-package/submit-to-app-stores" title="Submit to app stores" description="Package a Pear app for Flathub, the Snap Store, the App Store, and Google Play." />
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