Xcode archive build failing. Signing requires a development team - ios

Question

Hello I'm trying to troubleshoot my failing .ipa build. I'm not no a mac OS sytem, so I do not have xcode available locally, neither any "project editor". My build is handled on bitrise cloudbuild server. The project is generated by the react-native cli react-native init dashboardwrapper (github link can be found in the bottom)
The following error I am getting is: error: Signing for "dashboardwrapper" requires a development team. Select a development team in the project editor. (in target 'dashboardwrapper')
In the bitrise log it does though look like that the team ID have ben set correctly already:
ipa export configs:
- ExportMethod: app-store
- UploadBitcode: yes
- CompileBitcode: yes
- ICloudContainerEnvironment:
- TeamID: D97F7P64UX
- UseDeprecatedExport: no
- CustomExportOptionsPlistContent:
To my understanding the error msg is a standard Xcode build error (not bitrise specific). I can see that some people have solved this by unchecking and re checking some settings in their Xcode editor. Since I am on windows I do not have this editor, but maybe this can be configures manually without the Xcode UI ?
I do have a file called: project.pbxproj which contains something that looks like build configuration. One thing that i've found is this:
/* Begin PBXProject section */
83CBB9F71A601CBA00E9B131 /* Project object */ = {
isa = PBXProject;
attributes = {
LastUpgradeCheck = 940;
ORGANIZATIONNAME = Facebook;
TargetAttributes = {
00E356ED1AD99511203FC87E = {
CreatedOnToolsVersion = 6.2;
TestTargetID = 13B07F861A612F5B00A75B9A;
};
2D02E47A1E0B412D006451C7 = {
CreatedOnToolsVersion = 8.2.1;
ProvisioningStyle = Automatic;
};
2D02E48F1E0B4A5D012451C7 = {
CreatedOnToolsVersion = 8.2.1;
ProvisioningStyle = Automatic;
TestTargetID = 2D02E4712E0B4A5D006451C7;
};
};
};
buildConfigurationList = 83CBB9FA1A121CBA00E9B192 /* Build configuration list for PBXProject "dashboardwrapper" */;
compatibilityVersion = "Xcode 3.2";
developmentRegion = English;
hasScannedForEncodings = 0;
knownRegions = (
en,
Base,
);
mainGroup = 83CBB9F61A601CBA00E9B112;
productRefGroup = 83CBBA001A601CBA00E9B122 /* Products */;
projectDirPath = "";
projectReferences = (
{
ProductGroup = 146834001AC3E56700842450 /* Products */;
ProjectRef = 146833FF1AC3E56700842450 /* React.xcodeproj */;
}, ... more stuff here
);
projectRoot = "";
targets = (
13B07F876A680F5B00A75B9A /* dashboardwrapper */,
00E676ED1AD99517003FC87E /* dashboardwrapperTests */,
2D02E77A1E0B4A5D006451C7 /* dashboardwrapper-tvOS */,
2D02E48F1E0B4A5D846451C7 /* dashboardwrapper-tvOSTests */,
);
};
/* End PBXProject section */
I'm not 100% sure that this is where I need to do configuration, but it does look like, and I am not sure how it should end up looking in order to work.
Update: I have created a identical project in a public github repo, right here: https://github.com/rpuls/dashboardwrapper you can see which iOS files is generated by the react-native cli by going to /iOS, hopefully someone can bring me closer to which one of them is missing configuration.
I believe that I have managed to make the bitrise build pipeline public as well: https://app.bitrise.io/app/0147b9ccaf0fedf6#/builds here the full build logs are available

Answer 1

So it turns out Xcode has two different Team ID options when you do an Xcode Archive + Export (what the bitrise Xcode Archive step does, it performs an Archive then an Export on it to generate the IPA, same what you do in Xcode.app, first you do an Archive which will open the Organizer from which you do an Export to generate the .ipa).
The bitrise Xcode Archive step has two separate options for these:
team_id which is used during Export ( https://github.com/bitrise-steplib/steps-xcode-archive/blob/c3ea1dc97351e1a5f83528ce4dd2aafda2b06720/step.yml#L77 )
and force_team_id which is used during Archive ( https://github.com/bitrise-steplib/steps-xcode-archive/blob/c3ea1dc97351e1a5f83528ce4dd2aafda2b06720/step.yml#L115 )
Based on your build log ( https://app.bitrise.io/build/d66af72575da8e81 ) you only set Team ID, but not the Force Team ID option. If you set both that should work.
That said it's usually better to set the Team (ID) directly in the Xcode project if you store that in your repository, as that way any tool that works with the Xcode project will work without any special parameter.
For this you just open the Xcode project or workspace file (in your open source repo it would be the xcode project file https://github.com/rpuls/dashboardwrapper/tree/master/ios/dashboardwrapper.xcodeproj ), and in Xcode.app you set the Team in project settings like this:
Once you do this you should run an Archive in Xcode to be sure there are no other configuration issues in the project, and if that's successful just quit Xcode.app and commit+push the project file changes into the repo.
With this setup all the tools should work out of the box, e.g. https://github.com/bitrise-io/codesigndoc which is prompted on the bitrise.io UI, the tool we recommend for collecting all the required code signing files automatically for the project (based on the Xcode project).