Overview
Our command line builds (to build and create the .ipa) are no longer working.
iTunesConnect has started rejecting builds that use the CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH
build setting.
If we build WITHOUT that setting the PackageApplication tool (which we use to create the signed .ipa) fails.
It seems that PackageApplication calls /usr/bin/codesign with resource-rules arguments even if the CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH
build setting is excluded
I suspect the PackageApplication needs to be updated so that it does not call /usr/bin/codesign with resource-rules arguments when the CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH
build setting is excluded.
Has anyone found a solution for this?
Details
We build our app on the command line like this:
xcodebuild -workspace myApp.xcworkspace -scheme myApp -sdk iphoneos -configuration AppStoreDistribution OBJROOT=$PWD/build SYMROOT=$PWD/build ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO 'CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH=$(SDKROOT)/ResourceRules.plist'
We create the signed .ipa on the command line like this:
xcrun -log -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication "/Users/mpv/dev/myApp/build/AppStoreDistribution-iphoneos/myApp.app" -o "/Users/mpv/dev/myApp/build/AppStoreDistribution-iphoneos/myApp.ipa" -sign "iPhone Distribution: MyTeam (XXXXXXXXXX)" -embed /Users/mpv/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.mobileprovision
iTunesConnect is now rejecting our builds with the following error:
"This bundle is invalid. The Info.plist contains an invalid key
'CFBundleResourceSpecification' in bundle myApp [myApp.app]"
If we remove the 'CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH=$(SDKROOT)/ResourceRules.plist'
bit from the build command then the app is built without the CFBundleResourceSpecification
plist key (which I presume is what we want). The new build command looks like this:
xcodebuild -workspace myApp.xcworkspace -scheme myApp -sdk iphoneos -configuration AppStoreDistribution OBJROOT=$PWD/build SYMROOT=$PWD/build ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO
The problem now is that the command to build the .ipa fails with the following error:
error: /usr/bin/codesign –force
–preserve-metadata=identifier,entitlements,resource-rules –sign iPhone Distribution: MyTeam (XXXXXXXXXX)
–resource-rules=/var/folders/2b/7hylk7nn13dgrl9yyh2wp0lm0000gn/T/zDRRJMkKtQ/Payload/myApp.app/ResourceRules.plist
–entitlements /var/folders/2b/7hylk7nn13dgrl9yyh2wp0lm0000gn/T/zDRRJMkKtQ/entitlements_plistIUdGWLYe
/var/folders/2b/7hylk7nn13dgrl9yyh2wp0lm0000gn/T/zDRRJMkKtQ/Payload/myApp.app
failed with error 1. Output: Warning: usage of –preserve-metadata
with option "resource-rules" (deprecated in Mac OS X >= 10.10)!Warning: –resource-rules has been deprecated in Mac OS X >= 10.10!
/var/folders/2b/7hylk7nn13dgrl9yyh2wp0lm0000gn/T/zDRRJMkKtQ/Payload/myApp.app/ResourceRules.plist:
cannot read resources
It seems that PackageApplication calls /usr/bin/codesign with resource-rules arguments even if the CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH
argument / build setting is excluded.
I think PackageApplication needs to be updated so that it does not call /usr/bin/codesign with resource-rules arguments when the CODE_SIGN_RESOURCE_RULES_PATH
argument / build setting is excluded.
Best Answer
Apple got back to me with a solution. As of Xcode 7 we should use
xcodebuild
instead ofPackageApplication
to produce the .ipa file.xcodebuild has a new -exportArchive option to create an .ipa that works more like Xcode Organizer.
So we should now:
xcodebuild archive
xcodebuild -exportArchive
We now build the archive like this:
We now export the .ipa like this:
These two command create the files
build/myApp.xcarchive
andbuild/myApp.ipa
Note that
xcodebuild -exportArchive
requires a-exportOptionsPlist
argument that points to a .plist file with export options. For a complete list of what you can put in that plist, runxcodebuild -help
. The minimal contents of the file looks like this:In Xcode 9, you now have to specify more details in exportOptions.plist like below: