How to play the project in editor in release mode?

Question

Hi everybody,
when I'm in the Godot editor and play my project, it always runs as debug build.
How can I make the editor to play the project in release mode?
Thanks

Answer 1

Godot currently doesn't support this as a built-in feature, but you can copy a release export template from your Godot user data folder's templates/ folder, copy it to the project folder root then double-click the export template in a file manager.

If you don't want to copy the export template to your project folder, you can run it in its original location with the --path command line argument that points to the project root folder.

Comments

Great answer, thank you, it works.

I've made a bash script, which does a macOS release build:

#!/bin/bash

OS=`uname -s`
if [ "$OS" = "Darwin" ]; then
  echo "macOS"

  if [ ! -d osx_template.app ]; then
    echo "copy osx.zip from editor data path to project directory"
    cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Godot/templates/3.5.stable/osx.zip .
    echo "unzip osx.zip"
    unzip osx.zip
    echo "remove osx.zip"
    rm osx.zip
fi
  echo "run export template for macOS release build"
  ./osx_template.app/Contents/MacOS/godot_osx_release.64
else
  echo "other OS than macOS"
fi