Xcode 4 create IPA file instead of xcarchive

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In Xcode 3 2 5 I use  Build And Archive  to create an IPA file  In Xcode 4 you can use  Product -  Archive  to archive an application in an  xcarchive bundle   How can I create an  ipa file with Xcode 4

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Just setting Skip Install to YES did not work for me. Hopefully this will help somebody.

I went to dependence of my project targets: Coreplot-CocoaTouch. Then went to Coreplot-CocoaTouch Targets. In its Targets opened Build Phases. Then opened Copy Headers. There I had some of headers in Public, some in Private and some in Project. Moved ALL of them to Project.

Of course, in Build Settings of Coreplot-CocoaTouch Targets checked that Skip Install was set to YES in Deployment options.

And this time Archive made an archive that could be signed and .ipa produced.

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I went threw the same problem  None of the answers above worked for me  but i ended finding the solution on my own  The ipa file wasn t created because there was library files  libXXX a  in Target-  Build Phases -  Copy Bundle with resources  Hope it will help someone

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Creating an IPA is done along the same way as creating an  xcarchive  Product -  Archive  After the Archive operation completes  go to the Organizer  select your archive  select Share and in the  Select the content and options for sharing   pane set Contents to  iOS App Store Package   ipa  and Identity to iPhone Distribution  which should match your ad hoc app store provisioning profile for the project     Chances are the  iOS App Store Package   ipa   option may be disabled  This happens when your build produces more than a single target  say  an app and a library  All of them end up in the build products folder and Xcode gets na  vely confused about how to package them both into an  ipa file  so it merely disables the option   A way to solve this is as follows  go through build settings for each of the targets  except the application target  and set Skip Install flag to YES  Then do the Product -  Archive tango once again and go to the Organizer to select your new archive  Now  when clicking on the Share button  the  ipa option should be enabled   I hope this helps

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Same issue  I solved setting the  skip install  flag to YES for each external projects  leaving the other targets of the main project unchanged    I also had to go to  Edit scheme      choose the  Archiving  panel and set the correct build setting for my ad-hoc purpose   Then a simple Product -  Archive -  Share made the expected job

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In the organizer you can click Share and save as iOS App Store Package  ipa    You may also have to select  Archive  from the  Product  menu to generate the archive in the Organizer   Lastly  I think you have to have a properly signed archived build to do this

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For Xcode 4 6  and Xcode 5  archives   In Organizer  right-click an archive  select Show in Finder In Finder  right-click an archive  select Show Package Contents Open the folder Products   Applications  The application is there Drag the application into iTunes Apps folder   Right-click on the application in iTunes Apps  select Show in Finder The  ipa is there

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You will need to Build and Archive your project  You may need to check what code signing settings you have in the project and executable   Use the Organiser to select your archive version and then you can Share that version of your project  You will need to select the correct code signing again  It will allow you to save the  ipa file where you want   Drag and drop the  ipa file into iTunes and then sync with your iPhone

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Assuming you ve done a successful Product   Archive then  from Organizer  Shift Apple 2  click Archives   Select your Archive  Select Share  In the  Select the content and options for sharing   pane set Contents to  iOS App Store Package   ipa  and Identity to iPhone Distribution   Click Next  enter an App name and click Save   Full gory details with screenshots are here  Xcode4UserGuide

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If it is a game may be app also  and you have some static libraries like cocos2d or other third party library     then you just have to select  ONLY THE  static library  NOT THE APP  and in its build settings under Deployment   set Skip Install flag to YES and Archive it dats it

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One who has tried all other answers and had no luck the please check this check box  hope it ll help  did the trick for me xcode 6 0 1

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I had this same problem  using an old version of the route-me library  I  skipped  all the libraries  and the libraries inside of libraries  proj4   but I still had the same problem   Turns out that route-me and proj4 were installing public header files  even when the libraries were being skipped  which was messing it up in the same way   So I just went into the route-me and proj4 targets  Build Phases  tab  opened  Copy Headers   opened  Public   and dragged those headers from  Public  into  Project    Now they don t get installed in   BUILD  usr local include  and I m able to make an ipa file from the archive    I hope Apple fixes this horrible usability problem with XCode  It gives absolutely no indication of what s wrong  it just doesn t work  I hate dimmed out controls that don t tell you anything about why they re dimmed out  How about instead of ignoring clicks  the disabled controls could pop up a message telling you why the hell they re disabled when you click on them in frustration

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I had the same problem     Had to recreate the project from scratch   Note  my project was created in XCode 3 1 and was linking against a static library that was being built as a subproject  to a common destination    I changed this to build the source instead when I recreated the XCode project in XCode 4   Now doing a Product Archive Share    gets the option of  iOS App Store Package   ipa   directly above  Application   which is now greyed out  and  Archive   which exports the  xcarchive

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