When I am trying to build my Xamarin iOS project, I am facing this issue:
The Xamarin Build Agent is not running on the Mac. An active Build Agent is required to perform the build.
In order to use Visual Studio to compile iOS project, you will need to have a Mac setup with Xamarin for your Visual Studio to connect with (Physical mac or cloud services like mac in cloud). Refer to the xamarin guide HERE.
You say you uninstalled & reinstalled Xamarin... do you mean on the Mac?
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The docs from Xamarin aren't explicit as to where an iOS device needs to be attached. I'm using VS to build a Xamarin app through a remote Mac Builder (connected via VPN) but my iphone is attached to my PC with Visual Studio. Its completely unclear as to whether or not you can deploy a compiled to from the PC you're running Visual Studio on or whether the iOS device needs to be USB'd to the remote Mac running the build.
Even though Xamarin offers developers the way to use C# creating native iOS applications, we also need to pair to a Mac which is required for compiling native iOS applications. So of course if you want to deploy on a real device, you need to connect it to the Mac.
It seems you have already known how to create a provisioning profile. This documentation tells you how to pair to a Mac to deploy applications. Also before doing that you also need to complete the following steps:
On a Windows machine, install Visual Studio 2017
On a Mac, install Xcode and Visual Studio for Mac
I have a cross platform xamarin project running on Windows VS 2017. I have a mac which I am connected to with the latest version of Xcode and VS installed with the xamarin versions matching. When I go to build the project, I get an error: "The Xamarin Build Agent is not running on the Mac. An active Build Agent is required to perform the build".
I know for sure that I'm connected, and that the xamarin versions are the same on the mac and windows. I followed all the steps here: https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/getting_started/installation/windows/connecting-to-mac/troubleshooting/
I'm at a loss here, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have the same problem, i found this solution on xamarin forum
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/100185/the-xamarin-build-agent-is-not-running-on-the-mac
I hope this of help
I've got the error :
"The Xamarin Build Agent is not running on the Mac. An active Build Agent is required to perform the build".
Tools -> extension and updates
Find Xamarin.Apple SDK
Click Revert.
Everythings come back to normal.
Thanks for solution
Benoist
I'm currently discovering Visual Studio 2015 RC Community to develop mobile applications with Cordova.
I have a Mac (OS X Yosemite) with the necessary tools to use the iOS Remote Agent from within Visual Studio. I have an iPad connected to my Mac to deploy a basic Cordova application on this device.
Unfortunately I don't understand why in the list of iOS devices, I have no "remote device" (as shown in the screenshot tutorial https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/dn757056.aspx ) to deploy the application on the iPad connected to my Mac.
How can I resolve this problem?
Thank you for your answsers ;-).
Are you using a localized VS version as this is a known issue in localized version? If so, then as a workaround, can you try copying %PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v14.0\ApacheCordovaTools\vs-mda-targets\iOSRemotEDevice.xml into the fr-FR folder. The string wont be localized though.
I am attempting to build iOS apps in C# in Visual Studio with the help of the Xamarin software. My question is, is there any other solutions for resolving the build host connection between my Mac and PC? I have successfully downloaded the Xamarin software on the PC but on my mac i cant install Xamarin because it has the 10.6.8 software but Xamarin needs 10.7.0 at the least. I have already installed Xcode successfully as well.
Unfortunately you will need to update your Mac build host machine to 10.7 in order to use the cross platform building solution provided by Xamarin.
This is because one of the key requirements is that you have Xamarin.iOS installed on the Mac build host which, as you mentioned, requires 10.7.
I've Windows 8 and I'm trying to develop iphone application. I've downloaded and installed xamarin with ios development tools, started the visual studio 2012. So when I'am trying to create ios project, the window appears with message: "A Mac build host was not automatically detected". Can anybody help me? I searched the answer for a long time but did not succeed, thank's in advance!
Xamarin for Visual Studio still requires a Mac on the same network in order to build the app itself. iOS apps can't be built on Windows, currently.
From: http://xamarin.com/visual-studio
[...] with a networked Mac providing the build and deployment services.