存档与构建

Question

I'm wondering if Archive is actually doing a build by itself? My usual steps are "Build -> Archive -> validate -> publish" but I'm wondering if the first step "Build" is actually redundant?

Reason for this question is today noticed that my app actually passed the build, but failed at archive?

Answer 1

Yes you are right, you dont required 'Build' before archiving. So, you can directly archive it(it automatically going to build it).

As per your comment - you are getting this error - while archiving = Linker command failed library not found

This error comes when compiler unable to find required library. So, check your Runpath search paths ( Library search paths in xcode version older than iOS 12) in build settings.

As per you - You get success while building but failure while archiving - it happens only if you have kept different Runpath search paths for Debug and Release . See below image.

One more thing. If you wanted to reproduce samething while Building app, then follow this

1. Press Command + Shift + < (this will open edit scheme)

2. You will be on below screen :

3. Here, Change build configuration for 'Run' from Debug to Release .

After making above change, when you run the app, it will build exactly same as archive case, so if you are build getting failed while archiving, then it must be failing now, otherwise will work fine.