NET8 MAUI & iOS: error with AppCenter Crashes

Question

In my NET8 MAUI application, I added the packages for AppCenter. The application is working for Windows and Android. When I try to run the application on an Apple simulator, the building gets me this error:

clang++ exited with code 1: ld: in /Users/enrico/Library/Caches/Xamarin/mtbs/builds/LanguageInUse/1fa03704bb15e35c6f47a701d9d92131e3e0740198296a93338bb3c829bc9cf7/obj/Debug/net8.0-ios/iossimulator-arm64/linker-cache/AppCenterCrashes.a(MSACErrorReport.o), building for iOS Simulator, but linking in object file built for iOS, file '/Users/enrico/Library/Caches/Xamarin/mtbs/builds/LanguageInUse/1fa03704bb15e35c6f47a701d9d92131e3e0740198296a93338bb3c829bc9cf7/obj/Debug/net8.0-ios/iossimulator-arm64/linker-cache/AppCenterCrashes.a' clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) LanguageInUse C:\Program Files\dotnet\packs\Microsoft.iOS.Sdk\17.2.8004\targets\Xamarin.Shared.Sdk.targets 1559

I tried different Target iOS Framework but I get the same result.

Do you know if I can fix it? Do I have to remove the AppCenter packages (and this is so annoying)?

Answer 1

The underlying issue seems to be that the AppCenter NuGet doesn't support the ARM64 architecture in the simulator. As shared in this MAUI GitHub issue, you have to enter this in your CSPROJ file:

<ForceSimulatorX64ArchitectureInIDE>true</ForceSimulatorX64ArchitectureInIDE>