Archive in Xcode 4.5 - No errors, but build cancelled

Question

I've been building iOS apps for > 2 years and never encountered this problem. I am attempting to archive an app for beta distribution. The build succeeds, but at the very end of the process, Xcode reports 'Archive Cancelled'.

The build logs show no warnings or errors of any kind.

Sometimes, by cleaning/cleaning build folder/wiping derived data, I can get the archive to succeed, but there seems to be no pattern to it. Has anyone encountered this issue? I don't even have anything to go on as far as an error message in this case.

Answer 1

Xcode 13.2.1 - Super Simple

Put this in a pre or post action (inside the Edit Scheme dialogue). It will bump all version numbers inside your project.

cd "${PROJECT_DIR}" ; agvtool bump

Here's my short blog post on the subject

After a ton of testing I realized a couple of things:

• A lot of answers leave off the quotes around ${PROJECT_DIR} which prevents the change of directory to the project folder.
• We can access agvtool directly, instead of using xcrun (at least when I have Xcode command line tools installed, I haven't tried this without them)
• The new build system prevents archives from completing successfully when a build phase script uses agvtool to modify the project file.

Answer 2

First: +1 on ConfusedNoob's answer, because that was the problem (which led me to numerous experiments and finally this solution.) If my answer helps you, +1 his, too, because his hint was huge!

(Also, see my other answer, below, that bypasses agvtool altogether. I eventually settled-in to using that in all my projects.)

I've been messing with it a bit and the only thing I've found that works reliably to solve it is to use agvtool as a pre-action in the appropriate scheme(s), rather than as a run-script in the build-phases.

• CMD-SHIFT-comma to edit schemes (XCode 6.x)
• Twiddle-open whichever scheme you want this on. I did it on Run and Archive, but I probably only really need it on archive.
• Select the "+" icon and "New run script action"

• Add your agvtool script. If you care, mine is:

  cd ${PROJECT_DIR} ; xcrun agvtool next-version -all
  

(NOTE: pre-actions don't naturally run in ${PROJECT_DIR}, so you have to cd.)

Close & save and that's it.

The problem is that agvtool modifies the project file (unnecessarily, since all the build numbers we care about are elsewhere), and modifying the project file causes the build to cancel.

+1 one on the question, too -- cripes, that was a tough one!