Unable to package IPA (ld: Assertion failed / ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64)

[MatseFR]

I'm posting here after trying everything I could think of

I'm trying to update an iOS app on a M1 Mac (not mine, I'm not very used to Macs)

all ANEs I use are from Distriqt :

• Application
• Facebook
• NativeWebView
• PDFReader
• PushNotifications.FCM

I updated the Mac with the latest versions of MacOSX and Xcode

I tried using Temurin JDK 17 and 21

I get a different error when I specify the platformsdk in the command line and when I don't so I'm including both logs from the AIR SDK Manager

with -platformsdk I get "ld: Assertion failed (...)"

and without it I get "ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64"

the project is setup with APM and the application.xml is generated with APM as well
I also tried "apm update" just in case there were some very recent changes

Any idea about what I'm doing wrong or something I should try ?

Thanks !
log.txt
log_with_platformsdk.txt

EDIT : forgot to mention I use the latest AIR SDK 51.2.2.5

[marchbold]

The first log looks like it is picking up v16.4 of the iOS SDK. This version is too old

The second one you are using v26 which is too new ;)

Currently the suggest version is 18.(4+)

I am working on supporting v26 with the extensions but still awaiting several sdk updates.

[MatseFR]

Thanks a lot for answering that quick Michael, much appreciated !

I downloaded Xcode 16.4 (iOS SDK 18.5) and now it creates an IPA

I'll have to wait this evening to test it but the file size appears very small, I checked the log in the AIR SDK Manager and there are lots of warnings in there like

warning: /Users/marchbold/work/distriqt/extensions/supportlibs/corelibraries/platform/ios/build/ExplicitPrecompiledModules/Foundation-1S1DCIIVGZW91BBR2F3IHU6E9.pcm: No such file or directory
note: while processing /Users/marchbold/work/distriqt/extensions/supportlibs/corelibraries/platform/ios/build/ExplicitPrecompiledModules/Foundation-1S1DCIIVGZW91BBR2F3IHU6E9.pcm

So I suspect something is still wrong ?
log_iphoneOS18.5.txt

[marchbold]

Those should be safe to ignore but I'll look into them. Is the IPA launching on your device now?

[MatseFR]

Sorry for the late reply

The app crashes immediately when I start it, I spent hours yesterday trying to get access to the iphone's logs but nothing worked either on mac (another one, same owner as the iPhone I test on) or windows
Today I have the mac I originally used, and this one sees the iPhone in the Console so here's the log at last !

I'm installing the app on the iPhone through TestFairy, tried with adt -installApp but it didn't do anything

The same app runs perfectly fine on Android btw

This is the only mobile and AIR app I have, I just need to update it once in a while, it existed for several years. I no longer use as3/AIR or mobile except for this one so I guess I might be missing something very simple/stupid somewhere

I see "Unable to extract info plist from binary" but I can see the info plist just fine for that ipa in TestFairy

I also see some stuff about "nil supplied UUID" but I'm 100% positive I used a mobileprovision file with the iPhone's UUID included (I can also see it in TestFairy for that ipa file)

Any pointer welcome :)

Thanks !
log_console_iPhone11.txt

[marchbold]

What was the output from adt -installApp ? That should work if you have a device connected via usb and the provisioning profile installed correctly.

[MatseFR]

I finally had it working

Turns out I had 2 problems :

1. my Assets.car was preventing the app from launching at all. I created it from Xcode but I think it was with the latest Xcode, before installing 16.4. I guess I'll have to create one for app store validation but that's another topic (I saw your script but that's an old app and I only have flattened image files, not sure I can have source files to extract icon and background)

2. I was including assets/ios/Frameworks instead of assets/ios

Thanks a lot for your help, much appreciated !