Changing Archive Type from *Generic Xcode Archive* to *Mac App Archive*

Question

I've got a small command line app written in Swift, that I'd now like to archive. Like a number of others before me however, I've come up against the problem of how to change the Archive Type from Generic Xcode Archive to Mac App Archive.

The majority of previous answers addressing this problem suggest setting the Skips Install flag to No for the target. I've done this, but it made no difference. I've also tried setting the same flag to No for the project, but the result remains the same. Some of these answers also make a number of other suggestions, which I've also followed where appropriate, but still the Archive Type refuses to yield.

The entire project consists of a single 10-line file, and I've now run out of ideas about what else to fiddle about with.

Answer 1

The type is determined by the content of the archive. If you have a single .app in your /Products/Applications folder (inside the archive) this will qualify as a Application-Archive. If you have more files in that folder or if its not an .app, you've got a different type (like Generic Xcode Archive)