Xcode 8.3 xcodebuild exportArchive not working Error "Inapplicable devices"

Question

I am trying to create an ipa file as follows:

xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath /tmp/public_1.46.0.2029_production.xcarchive -exportPath /tmp/avner -exportOptionsPlist export.plist 

Export. minimally (I also tried to completely remove it and add / remove various flags)

I get the following output

 ~/Developer/iOS-Scripts/Maxi : xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath /tmp/public_1.46.0.2029_production.xcarchive -exportPath /tmp//avner_avner -exportOptionsPlist export.plist 2017-04-03 15:48:37.428 xcodebuild[5086:564094] [MT] IDEDistribution: -[IDEDistributionLogging _createLoggingBundleAtPath:]: Created bundle at path '/var/folders/rg/8ydk5h297ng50z_3dpkr5jx00000gn/T/InsertViewer_2017-04-03_15-48-37.428.xcdistributionlogs'. 1.2.840.113635.100.1.61 2017-04-03 15:48:46.363 xcodebuild[5086:564094] [MT] IDEDistribution: Step failed: <IDEDistributionThinningStep: 0x7fdc03a02110>: Error Domain=IDEDistributionErrorDomain Code=14 "No applicable devices found." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=No applicable devices found.} error: exportArchive: No applicable devices found. Error Domain=IDEDistributionErrorDomain Code=14 "No applicable devices found." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=No applicable devices found.} ** EXPORT FAILED ** 

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EDIT

I tried calling the assembly using the script framework, but still getting the same error:

 ./xcbuild-safe.sh -exportArchive -archivePath /tmp/public_1.46.0.2029_production.xcarchive -exportPath /tmp//avner_avner -exportOptionsPlist export.plist + xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath /tmp/public_1.46.0.2029_production.xcarchive -exportPath /tmp//avner_avner -exportOptionsPlist export.plist 2017-04-04 10:25:22.726 xcodebuild[16384:848977] [MT] IDEDistribution: -[IDEDistributionLogging _createLoggingBundleAtPath:]: Created bundle at path '/var/folders/rg/8ydk5h297ng50z_3dpkr5jx00000gn/T/InsertViewer_2017-04-04_10-25-22.726.xcdistributionlogs'. 1.2.840.113635.100.1.61 2017-04-04 10:25:32.156 xcodebuild[16384:848977] [MT] IDEDistribution: Step failed: <IDEDistributionThinningStep: 0x7fdde059ff50>: Error Domain=IDEDistributionErrorDomain Code=14 "No applicable devices found." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=No applicable devices found.} error: exportArchive: No applicable devices found. Error Domain=IDEDistributionErrorDomain Code=14 "No applicable devices found." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=No applicable devices found.} ** EXPORT FAILED ** ~/Developer/iOS-Scripts/Maxi : cat xcbuild-safe.sh #!/bin/bash --login # shellcheck disable=SC2155 # shellcheck disable=SC1090 # Originally from, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33041109 # Modified to work in RVM and non RVM environments # # Xcode 7 (incl. 7.0.1) seems to have a dependency on the system ruby. # xcodebuild has issues by using rvm to map to another non-system # ruby. This script is a fix that allows you call xcodebuild in a # "safe" rvm environment, but will not (AFAIK) affect the "external" # rvm setting. # # The script is a drop in replacement for your xcodebuild call. # # xcodebuild arg1 ... argn # # would become # # path/to/xcbuild-safe.sh arg1 ... argn # # More information available here: https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/issues/6495 # ----- which rvm > /dev/null # shellcheck disable=SC2181 if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then echo "RVM detected, forcing to use system ruby" # This allows you to use rvm in a script. Otherwise you get a BS # error along the lines of "cannot use rvm as function". Jeez. [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Cause rvm to use system ruby. AFAIK, this is effective only for # the scope of this script. rvm use system fi if which rbenv > /dev/null; then echo "rbenv detected, removing env variables" # Cause rbenv to use system ruby. Lasts only for the scope of this # session which will normally just be this script. rbenv shell system fi # Since Xcode has a dependency to 2 external gems: sqlite and CFPropertyList # More information https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/issues/6495 # We have to unset those variables for rbenv, rvm and when the user uses bundler unset RUBYLIB unset RUBYOPT unset BUNDLE_BIN_PATH unset _ORIGINAL_GEM_PATH unset BUNDLE_GEMFILE # Even if we do not use rbenv in some environments such as CircleCI, # We also need to unset GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH explicitly. # More information https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/issues/6277 unset GEM_HOME unset GEM_PATH set -x # echoes commands xcodebuild " $@ " # calls xcodebuild with all the arguments passed to this ~/Developer/iOS-Scripts/Maxi : 

And plist (in its current incarnation)

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>method</key> <string>ad-hoc</string> </dict> </plist> 

Answer 1

You can use the following fastlane shell to avoid Ruby problems in your build

https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/blob/master/gym/lib/assets/wrap_xcodebuild/xcbuild-safe.sh

Replace:

 xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath ${ARCHIVE} -exportPath ${OUTPUT_DIR} -exportOptionsPlist exportOptions.plist 

By:

 sh xcbuild-safe.sh -exportArchive -archivePath ${ARCHIVE} -exportPath ${OUTPUT_DIR} -exportOptionsPlist exportOptions.plist 

It worked for me!

Answer 2

I checked IDEDistribution.standard.log and found a suspicious line there:

 Stderr: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/objdump: Mach-O universal file: /var/folders/3p/k32287w14n539kf36w55hldw0000gn/T/IDEDistributionThinningStep.C66/Payload/myApp.app/DeviceStatus for architecture armv7 is not a Mach-O file or an archive file. 

Sth weird was included in the application under Target> Build Phases> Copy Bundle Resources. It may also be unnecessary packages from the SDK. Removing the link for this file helped.