iPA building failed with an exception - NonZeroExcitException while preparing build for QA test/ AdHod

Question

Building ipa is failing every time with me for

Xcode 10.2
iOS 10
Swift 5

I have created fresh Distribution certificates and profiles for AdHoc
Switched off App Thinning but still no luck.
Even After looking at the similar problems on multiple forums and SO post I have tried multiple tricks but result is same.

Just winding if some one out there get any Idea looking at following error message

What is wrong with this build

Full error message text is :

"ipatool failed with an exception: CmdSpec::NonZeroExcitException: Command exited with pid 19900 exit 1: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/bitcode-build-tool -v -t /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin --sdk /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS12.2.sdk -o /var/folders/f4/wbk3bb9500s8527_0_ncx1r40000gn/T/ipatool20190729-17893-1r436rx/thinned-out/armv7/Payload/LanguageCurry.app/Frameworks/CardinalMobile.framework/CardinalMobile --generate-dsym /var/folders/f4/wbk3bb9500s8527_0_ncx1r40000gn/T/ipatool20190729-17893-1r436rx/thinned-out/armv7/Payload/LanguageCurry.app/Frameworks/CardinalMobile.framework/CardinalMobile.dSYM --strip-swift-symbols /var/folders/f4/wbk3bb9500s8527_0_ncx1r40000gn/T/ipatool20190729-17893-1r436rx/thinned-in/armv7/Payload/LanguageCurry.app/Frameworks/CardinalMobile.framework/CardinalMobile Stdout: Debug: SDK path: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Dev"

PS : I am using following set of pods

pod 'Alamofire', '~> 4.5'
  pod 'GoogleSignIn'
  pod 'JVFloatLabeledTextField'
  pod 'Braintree'
  pod 'BraintreeDropIn'
  pod 'CTShowcase'
  pod 'Fabric'
  pod 'Crashlytics'
  pod 'Firebase/Core'
  pod 'SwiftyStoreKit'
  pod 'OneSignal', '>= 2.6.2', '< 3.0'

Just tried disabling Bitcode on my project and all frameworks. That worked for me. — diamondminder, Jun 04 '20 at 12:54

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '19 at 01:34

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After spending 3 days I found the solution for this problem.

The build failing due to App Thinning and Bitcode feature was not supported by some third party pods because their outdated code versions.

So I had to switch off these feature in my ipa.

Step 1. Go to project settings and switch off Enable Bitcode option

Step 2. Switch off App Thinning while building ipa.

answered Aug 01 '19 at 01:34

swiftBoy

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that's not really suitable, because you usually want to publish with bitcode included. Please see my answer below: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65405939/4758450 – nrudnyk Dec 22 '20 at 09:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '20 at 09:10

We've got similar issue, which I described here and I just wan't to share results of our investigation, because seems that no-one has published their results. No needs to distribute without bitcode. Long story short, there were LLVM instrumentation included, which prevents AppStore processing. I've written a whole blog about XCode 12 and BigSur issues with XCFramework.

To sum up, here is a few required steps to make sure while creating XCFramework for distribution:

Using archive builds is a MUST, release build isn't enough
BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION must be set to YES
SKIP_INSTALL must be set to NO
GCC_INSTRUMENT_PROGRAM_FLOW_ARCS = NO to turn off GCC instrumentation and remove them from the binary
CLANG_ENABLE_CODE_COVERAGE = NO to turn off code coverage tools from the binary

Having all of the above helped to solve our preparing and distribution problem and hopefully save you some time if you happened to face same issues as we did.

iPA building failed with an exception - NonZeroExcitException while preparing build for QA test/ AdHod

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