I have a workspace with an app and a static lib. The lib is used in the project.
When I modify the lib and build the app, the lib is well rebuilt: cool! But if I have not modified the app, the newly built lib is not packaged within the app, it lets the old one. To have the newly built lib, I have to modify the app (I add a space and delete it)...
I have tried both ways: letting Xcode managing dependencies automatically, and explicitly added the lib in the app build phase.
So if someone has an idea!
Thanks in advance.
I dont fully get it I am afraid... you hit 'archive' and the .a file isn't included together with the .app inside the archive?
to get the .a file included in the archive, set:
go to build settings > your static lib > skip install and set it to NO
after the comments:
you HAVE to touch the app to get it copied to the simulator again.. mock editing a file should help
you can maybe automate this too:
add a scripting phase to the lib's build phases and have it run touch %PATH_TO_AN_M_FILE_FROM_THE_APP%
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I've put libsteam_api.dylib in the project folder. I've dragged it into the 'frameworks' folder in the project, and added it to the target. It shows up in the list of linked libraries
When I build and run, I get a "Library not loaded" error, and libsteam_api.dylib is nowhere to be found in the application bundle.
If I then manually copy the library into the MacOS folder of the bundle alongside the executable, it runs fine, but I don't want to have to keep doing that for every build
How do I get Xcode to include the library alongside the executable?
Add a Copy Files build phase to your target, copying the dylib into the Frameworks folder of the app package.
Just banged my head against this as well. There are two pieces to the solution.
1) In your project target's General settings, add the dylib to the list of "Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content", then set its option to "Embed & Sign".
2) Then, under Build Phases (where it should now appear in the "Embed Libraries" section), set its destination to "Executables". (Steam's dylib wants to live alongside the executable, not in the Frameworks directory.)
What is the recommended way to install 3rd party modules in Appcelerator project so that once checked into SVN/Git the module is available to everyone who checks out the project?
Just put them into ROOT/modules and then for iOS /iphone and /android
The downloaded zip can be added to the root of your project. It will then automatically extract the zip, and remove the zip when building.
Or, as Sebastian says, you can extract the ZIP yourself, and put them in the modules folder. Every module should already have the modules folder as a root, in that case copy the correct folders into your modules directory, or copy/paste the extracted modules folder into your project and merge folders.
Easiest is still just adding the zip
I have an XCode project which I would like to add source files to via scripting.
Is it possible to add compile sources via a run script build phase?
If so, how would I go about this?
I haven't found any documentation or examples of this, so I'm not sure it's possible.
You can create target that runs script. In this script any sources could be passed to xcodebuild arguments.
If this is not what is needed, XCode project by itself is an xml, so any files could be added to any targets, but project should be reloaded after, so I don't know how to add files to target withing runnign this target build.
Recently opened a project that I had compiled and submitted to Apple.
I haven't touched it for a couple of months but I'm getting this odd compile error at:
#import <Crashlytics/Crashlytics.h>
The error reads:
'Crashlytics/Crashlytics.h' file not found
Clearly the framework can't be found but I'm puzzled as to why, when the project was working a few months ago, it's suddenly stopped.
Any suggestions why?
Xcode: 4.6.3
Mac OS X: 10.8.4
Just add $(SRCROOT) to the Framework Search Paths in Project Build Settings (Search Paths).
Crashlytics installation process drops its Crashlytics.framework to your project folder (or creates the symlink).
If you moved Crashlytics.framework somewhere deeper in the project folder hierarchy - set 'recursive' to the right or just point directly to its parent folder in Header Search Paths:
$(SRCROOT)/Path/to/the/folder/containing/Crashlytics.framework
Delete frameworks from you project and disk. Check that you have the newest version of Fabric plugin.
Copy frameworks from plugin folder to desktop with this commands:
ditto -xk ~/Library/Caches/com.crashlytics.mac/5b91b14e832a7b1c29441ec5ba109810/sdks/ios/com.twitter.crashlytics.ios-default.zip ~/Desktop/
ditto -xk ~/Library/Caches/com.crashlytics.mac/5b91b14e832a7b1c29441ec5ba109810/sdks/ios/io.fabric.sdk.ios-default.zip ~/Desktop/
Add frameworks from desktop to your project.
Info from: https://twittercommunity.com/t/error-upgrading-from-crashlytics-on-ios/36196/2
I'd recommend just using CocoaPods to add the Crashlytics framework. No need to care about paths anymore.
Podfile:
pod 'Crashlytics', '~> 3.4.1'
Script Build Phase for dSYM Upload:
./Pods/Crashlytics/iOS/Crashlytics.framework/run <your_crashlytics_id>
Import:
#import <Crashlytics/Crashlytics.h>
For me, this worked:
Remove the fabric and crashlytics frameworks from your project, and delete the files from the disk for our project.
Comment the lines in your appdelegate.m file, if you added them for the following:
import Fabric/Fabric.h
import Crashlytics/Crashlytics.h
and
[Fabric with:#[CrashlyticsKit]];
In the fabric app, choose "New app", and select your Xcode project file
Recopy the build script and build as instructed. The build step is why you needed to comment the lines above-- it won't work if you leave those lines in.
After the build script runs, it will prompt you to drag the frameworks from the app window into your project navigator. This will copy the latest versions of he frameworks (which include the .h files) into your project
I have tried manually downloading, and copying from other projects, but this is the only way I could recover after losing the frameworks files for an app.
In my case, the Framework was in the project folder, but not in the Project Navigator. I dragged it to the project and everything worked fine.
I've had this issue working with distributed teams (through github) after checking in then checking out Crashlytics. The Crashlytics.framework will only have one folder inside it -- "Versions". You need to save a version of the contents inside Crashlytics.framework to another location, then copy-paste them into Crashlytics.framework later.
Remove Crashlytics.framework from the project and disk. Copy and add it again. It helped me.
In my case, I was migrating from an old Crashlytics install through the Mac app to Cocoapods. A lot of the answers to this question recommend completely removing everything and starting over. I started doing this and noticed a discrepancy between code found in Fabric's documentation and the code shown in the Fabric app during the step where it tells you what to copy into your Run Script Build Phase.
Fabric's documentation has double quotes surrounding the entire string: "${PODS_ROOT}/Fabric/Fabric.framework/run <Your_API_Key> <Your_Build_Secret>"
The Fabric App only had double quotes around the path to the run executable: "${PODS_ROOT}/Fabric/Fabric.framework/run" <Your_API_Key> <Your_Build_Secret>
So before you delete everything and start over, try updating your Run Script Build Phase to this:
"${PODS_ROOT}/Fabric/Fabric.framework/run" <Your_API_Key> <Your_Build_Secret>
I have changed the name of the working folder and Craslytics fails. Check this in Build Settings (Search Paths).
Good luck!
I have tried to play with the frameworks search path and relocating & reconnecting the framework file; checked the build settings (Link binary with libraries section) but the error persisted.
Finally, I have reinstalled the framework, which only takes 2-3 minutes. The problem might be caused by that you have relocated the Crashlytics.framework to another subfolder from the root directory, but I am not sure about the exact reason.
Delete everything regarding to the Crashlytics
Start crashlytics app, login and select your project
Add run script
Drag & drop the .framework file (I have kept it in the root folder)
Add the import and startWithAPIKey statements back
Completely Remove the Crashlytics Frameworks on your proj include the shell script in App Build Phases Run Script.
Reinstall the Fabric follow the guide,everything will be OK.
I had previously upgraded to Fabric and had no issues. A couple of days later, I reopened the same project and had the missing crashlytics.h file problem.
I couldn't simply reinstall from the plugin due to a non compiling project (I had so many CLS_LOG messages and references to the missing crashlytics.h file in my project, it would have taken a long time to remove them just to allow the build to work - refactor wouldn't work on CLS_LOG).
So instead, I deleted the crashlytics.framework from my project and did the following to reinstate it from the plug in directly:
Download the Fabric plugin again and double click the zip file to unpack the Fabric application.
Right click the Fabric icon and "Show Package Contents"
Copy the Crashlytics.framework folder to your Desktop and then re-add it to your project via File -> Add Files to ....
If step 3 doesn't work for you, you can also add crashlytics.framework to your project folder on your computer directly, and then also add it into your project list via Xcode same as in step 3 but uncheck "Copy Items if Needed" as you already put the files there yourself.
My project then compiled and worked fine again.
In terms of a guess as to why the file went missing? Part of the upgrade process got me to delete the old frameworks and then run the scripts etc. from the plugin. I think what happened is later when I emptied my trash, that some references were lost. I also had the problem where I'd put Crashlytics into my .gitignore file so it disappeared out of ALL my projects every committed which wasn't great.
Hope this helps someone!
I have same error.
Please try pod update
and fix it.
If FirebaseCrashlytics 9.0.0 installed , problem will be fixed.
stalling FirebaseCoreDiagnostics 9.0.0 (was 8.9.0)
Installing FirebaseCoreExtension (9.0.0)
Installing FirebaseCoreInternal (9.0.0)
//hrer
Installing FirebaseCrashlytics 9.0.0 (was 8.9.0)
Installing FirebaseFirestore 9.0.0 (was 8.9.1)
Installing FirebaseInstallations 9.0.0 (was 8.9.0)
I am new to cocoa and mac development. I have written an application which is combination of objective-c using cocoa framework and backend written in C++ library dylib.
I am using xcode 4.6 and have the above two projects Cocoa app and my C++ library. C++ is also my own project.
Now it is time for deployment. I want to make a pkg installer for it.
I could run/debug it in the xcode 4.6 because I had added search library path in the object-c project settings to be the output directory of the C++ project. Therefore it could find the dependency and run without crash.
Now in the Objective-C project tree inside the xcode I see products -> mysoftware.app file. if I find the location of this mysoftware.app file in the finder and run it, it crashes. I open the package contents of this app files and I see contentsfollowing structure
contents\(info.plist, MacOS, pkginfo, resources )
I do not see my C++ library in there, when I run mysoftware.app directly double clicking it crashes as it can not find the dylib I see the stack trace in the report window it can not find dylib, complaning that library not found usr/local/lib/mylib.dylib
I have also manually put the dylib file in the .app within the MacOS where my executable is, hoping that it will find the lib from the same directory, it did not , gave the same message above and looking from the the sane location /usr/local/lib/mylib.dylib
So my question is how do I resolve dependency of .app package for deployment, should I need to put the dylib inside the .app package ? how do I do that and then my next step would be to put this single .app thing in the pkg installer,
Thanks
This is what worked for me:
Drag the dylib into your Frameworks.
Add a Copy Files build phase, destination Frameworks and put the dylib there.
Add a Run Script phase which has the following script:
MYLIBNAME=libmylib.dylib
install_name_tool -change /usr/local/lib/$MYLIBNAME #executable_path/../Frameworks/$MYLIBNAME "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$EXECUTABLE_PATH"
That's it. The script tells your app to load the dylib from the right place - otherwise it will complain about not finding the dylib at runtime.
Note that you don't need to change anything in the dylib itself - it could be supplied from elsewhere.
I resolved it so I am putting up this answer to help others who want to do the same.
The dylib has to go in one of the sub folders within the application bundle (i.e. mysoftware.app). Could be MacOS, Frameworks or any sub folder we decide to put it in.
The first step is in the target settings of our dylib, we set the install path to be relative to the app bundle (mysoftware.app), so in Xcode target settings of lib I set it to:
#executable_path/../frameworks
You can also use #rpath (You might want to research on that, I think it is more flexible than #executable_path)
Xcode will change the install name as well for our dylib.
Then in the Objective-C project using our dylib in the Project settings -> Build phases -> Link -> we drag our dylib here from the products node of the dylib project.
In the Objective-C/Cocoa project, the last step is to add a build step named copy files, and it should show a combo box telling you the target folder of the bundle. I set it to frameworks (this will depend on that relative path you choose when setting install path of your dylib) . The second part of the 'Copy Files' build step is to provide the souce file to copy. That's our dylib file that we want to pack in the bundle's Frameworks folder. So drag the dylib file from the products (of your dylib project) to the source file of the build step.
And that's it.
Now when we build the Objective-C or Cocoa project, if our build steps and install_path , etc are correctly configured, it should build fine. After a successfull build of the Cocoa project, go to Products -> mysoftware.app -> Locate in the Finder and when you run it, it should run fine. Since the dependency dylib is in the Frameworks folder of the bundle and correctly linked. You can see the package contents of the bundle to see if the Frameworks folder contains your dylib file.
To my surprise, the path where a dylib is stored has to be part of the dylib. So when a project links to this dylib it will copy the same path in itself, so when we run the Cocoa app which was linked to that dylib, it will look for it at exactly the same path which it copied from inside the dylib and we are responsible for telling the dylib where it exists. In the form of install_path, etc.
There are tools to manually update the dylib's install path stored in the Cocoa project using that dylib. If update the path of an existing bundle using these tools it should be changed in the client of the dylib, not required in the dylib itself.
If we've the code then we can change it in Xcode as instructed above.
otool -L my.dylib for example can be used to see the dylib install path of an existing binary lib
install_name_tool -change can be used to update the install path of existing binary lib