iOS 6 - "application executable is missing required architecture: armv6"

Question

First, I have tried every answer for the question - application executable is missing a required architecture armv6

This worked last week before I downloaded iOS 6. Now I am getting the following error when validating my archive for distribution.

To my knowledge, the only change is iOS 6. So I believe there must be a new step I'm missing.

Answer 1

Make sure the iOS Deployment Target is set to iOS 4.3.

Although your project settings might say armv6, it is not supported anymore in Xcode 4.5, nor are Deployment Targets below 4.3.

Answer 2

XCode 4.5 no longer supports armv6 compilation. It may still exist in the architecture settings (from an older project) but it won't build them anymore. If you need to build for old (as in armv6 based ) iPhones you can't support 6.0 in the same build (as you need Xcode 4.5 for that).