Archive Export error: The archive contains nothing that can be signed

Question

My app runs on devices and simulators. The app archives with no errors. When I try to export I get the following error:

The log file IDEDistribution.critical.log contains the following:

2017-07-07 07:40:03 +0000 [MT] Failed to generate distribution items with error: Error Domain=IDEDistributionErrorDomain Code=12 "The archive contains nothing that can be signed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=The archive contains nothing that can be signed., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Verify that your build process has compiled binaries and copied in bundled resources.} 2017-07-07 07:40:03 +0000 [MT] Presenting: Error Domain=IDEDistributionErrorDomain Code=12 "The archive contains nothing that can be signed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=The archive contains nothing that can be signed., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Verify that your build process has compiled binaries and copied in bundled resources.}

The contents of the .xcarchive :

The .app also contains all the usual stuff.

I am sure there may be more information needed. Please ask and I will provide what I can.

Answer 1

What fixed my issue was including arm64 in the app architecture,

In your Target -> Build Settings search for:

1. VALID_ARCHS and make sure arm64 is included.
2. search for Excluded Architectures and make sure arm64 is NOT mentioned there.

Answer 2

Change the archive destination directory to a location on the local SSD (and not an external HDD).

I have not had this problem again after I did this and I recall having started running into the problem after I started trying to free up space on my mac.

Answer 3

At last, There may have been other issues too. but only after I changed the scheme container was I able to export. And I knew it had something to do with CocoaPods.

Before pod install your scheme may look something like this:

There are no other container options.

After pod install it will look like this:

Once I selected the Workspace container I started seeing a difference in the build and consequently the export worked.

Answer 4

For me helped relaunching an Xcode. I think the problem is because all archives stored in a separate HDD and it was something with the access to it by Xcode.

Answer 5

I had similar error when I was resolving error occurred after shifting from Intel based mac to M1 based mac for a ReactNative based project. For resolving some fixes, I had to exclude the arm64 in the project build settings, but I also excluded it in the target. I removed the "arm64" from all schemes of the excluded targets of Excluded Architectures of the project target and rebuilt the code. It worked.