How to create dSYM file in XCode 4?

Question

Can you please let me know how can I create .dSYM file using XCode 4?

Thanks!

score 101 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '11 at 14:28

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If you archive the application the dsym file is in the xarchive. Right-click on the entry in the organizer, do "show in finder", right click on the xarchive and choose "show package contents". The dsym is in the dSYMs directory.

answered Apr 21 '11 at 14:28

Joris Mans

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Can you rewrite the question in correct English please? I really do not understand what you ask. – Joris Mans May 21 '13 at 08:43
I meant what if I don't archive it from xcode? but I found it inside one of the folders. (I build it with jenkins). Thanks for trying to help – Dejell May 21 '13 at 09:14
Ah ok. Well seems you found the answer :) we also do command line builds here btw. – Joris Mans May 21 '13 at 14:49

score 39 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '12 at 00:56

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Update for Xcode 4.3.1

For me there was 2 build settings I had to edit and I had to edit them in the PROJECT and in the TARGETS sections before XCODE would generate dSYMs.

1) Build Settings -> Build Options -> Debug Information Format = DWARF with dSYM

2) Build Settings -> Apple LLVM compilier 3.1 - Code Generation -> Generate Debug Symbols = YES

Hopefully this will help someone else because I spent a few hours banging my head against the wall with Archives that had empty dSYM directories... I "love" XCODE sometimes....

answered Apr 10 '12 at 00:56

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Apparently (Xcode 4.5.1) DEBUG_INFORMATION -> Deployment has setting "DWARF" by default, the other option is "DWARF with dSYM File", which is the option I'd have liked. Now I have no dSYM file, but I do have a crash report. Not nice. – RickJansen Nov 01 '12 at 17:05
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Choose 'DWARF with with dSYM File'. – ZhangChn Jan 10 '13 at 17:03
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Generate Debug Symbols = YES that helped me too for some reason the previous team deactivated it.. – Piotr Oct 28 '14 at 09:22
Some more related build flags: `STRIP_INSTALLED_PRODUCT`, `UNSTRIPPED_PRODUCT`, `COPY_PHASE_STRIP` – Ohad Schneider Jan 06 '16 at 18:44

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 21 '11 at 14:35

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Make sure you have selected "DWARF with dSYM File" as the Debug Information Format in the build settings of your application. The dSYM is then generated automatically when you build and is usually placed in the same folder as the resulting .app.

answered Apr 21 '11 at 14:35

Julio Gorgé