Ios-moe gradle plugin 1.4.1 and xcode 9.x - Locating signing assets failed

Bug
1

I upgraded to Xcode 9.x and cannot longer sign a libGDX application which worked fine using Xcode 8.x

I get this error:

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# ERROR LOG
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2018-02-07 16:58:40.132 xcodebuild[13654:131781] [MT] IDEDistribution: -[IDEDistributionLogging _createLoggingBundleAtPath:]: Created bundle at path '/var/folders/m0/mc2v3k1d16b5ftc1n59dmgz40000gn/T/ios-moe_2018-02-07_16-58-40.130.xcdistributionlogs'.
2018-02-07 17:00:14.681 xcodebuild[13654:131781] [MT] IDEDistribution: Step failed: <IDEDistributionSigningAssetsStep: 0x7fb6c6b2bdb0>: Error Domain=IDEDistributionSigningAssetStepErrorDomain Code=0 "Locating signing assets failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Locating signing assets failed., IDEDistributionSigningAssetStepUnderlyingErrors=(
    "Error Domain=IDEProfileLocatorErrorDomain Code=1 "No profiles for 'com.mydomain.appname' were found" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=No profiles for 'com.mydomain.appname' were found, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Store provisioning profiles matching 'com.mydomain.appname'. Automatic signing is disabled and unable to generate a profile. To enable automatic signing, pass -allowProvisioningUpdates to xcodebuild.}"
)}
error: exportArchive: No profiles for 'com.mydomain.appname' were found

Error Domain=IDEProfileLocatorErrorDomain Code=1 "No profiles for 'com.mydomain.appname' were found" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=No profiles for 'com.mydomain.appname' were found, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Store provisioning profiles matching 'com.mydomain.appname'. Automatic signing is disabled and unable to generate a profile. To enable automatic signing, pass -allowProvisioningUpdates to xcodebuild.}

I am using the gradle task moeIpaBuild which does not allow me to add parameter -allowProvisioningUpdates. Is it somehow possible?

Any solutions besides going back to Xcode 8.3?

2

I’m on MOE SDK 1.4.2 and gradle plugin 1.4.3 with Xcode 9.1 and I’m able to build a LibGDX app (gdx version 1.9.6) with moeIpaBuild, so it’s definitely possible.

Note that I’m letting Xcode manage the signing for me (at least for Development) and then I re-sign it with my Distribution profile of choice with xcodebuild -exportArchive. Have successfully built and submitted a LibGDX app to the App Store with this method.

I guess the first thing to try is to update your SDK and plugin, and probably run the moeUpdateXcodeSettings gradle task after updating everything.

3

Use automatic signing in your xcode project or try this.

4

I got it running. Looks like it was a very rare bug with xcode and/or moe-gradle-plugin.

This is what I did.

  1. I created a fresh libGDX 1.9.8 project and run ./gradlew moeIpaBuild

I got the same error as above.

  1. I run ./gradlew moeIpaBuild --info to get more info about the subtasks which get called

Turns out the last task producing the error was causes by this subtask:

Starting process ‘command ‘xcrun’’. Working directory: /Users/tom/development/game/ios-moe Command: xcrun xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath /Users/tom/development/game/ios-moe/build/archive.xcarchive -exportPath /Users/tom/development/game/ios-moe/build -exportOptionsPlist /Users/tom/development/game/ios-moe/build/moe/export_options.plist\

  1. I manually run the command above adding -allowProvisioningUpdates to the end.

xcodebuild -exportArchive -archivePath /Users/tom/development/game/ios-moe/build/archive.xcarchive -exportPath /Users/tom/development/game/ios-moe/build -exportOptionsPlist /Users/tom/development/game/ios-moe/build/moe/export_options.plist -allowProvisioningUpdates

This time the task got executed.

Now comes the fun part. I run ./gradlew moeIpaBuild in my main project and this time everything worked. Kinda looks like a system/xcode-wide flag is now set and things work as expected.