Resigning an iOS app (.monotouch-32 symlink) - ios

I'm attempting to resign an app with a new provisioning profile. My generic steps are:
unzip *.ipa
rm *.app/_CodeSignature
cp Payload/*.app/embedded.mobileprovision
codesign -f -s "Cert" --entitlements entitlements.plist Payload/*.app
zip -r Resigned.ipa Payload
When I verify the app with verbose output I receive the message
A sealed resource is missing or invalid
This is followed by a list of .dll files in the .monotouch-32 folder with a message such as:
"file modified: /foo/bar/Payload/foo.app/.monotouch-32/Xamarin.Forms.Core.dll".
When I inspect the listed dll's, they are all .symlink's to their .monotouch-64 counterpart. Any specific .monotouch-32 file is not listed as modified.
Any ideas how I can get around this issue?

It might not be your only issue but zip requires the use of -y for symlinks.
If that does not help then please edit your question to add the commands (and their outputs) used to sign and verify. You should also compare the .ipa (.zip) before and after.

Hi I was facing similar issue. For Xamarin related ipa's its always better o resign the Monotouch and .dll files separately.Please check below command for same
sudo codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: abcd" --entitlements
entitlements.plist Payload/myApp.app/.monotouch-32/*.dll
Same for Monotouch-64
sudo codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: abcd" --entitlements
entitlements.plist Payload/myApp.app/.monotouch-64/*.dll
By executing the above commands all the files inside the Payload file will get resigned properly

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Resigned ipa do not install on ios devices

My organization has developer account (not enterprise) and have added me as a "team member" to the organizations team account and shared the developer certificate and development provisioning profile(includes 1 device). Using those, I could develop an app, archive and created an IPA from XCode (selected method of distribution as "Development") and exported to a folder on disk. When exported I have the following files created on my disk
DistributionSummary.plist
ExportOptiona.plist
manifest.pList
Packaging.log
app.ipa
The admin of my organization wants to resign this ipa to distribute to app store and followed all the steps mentioned below, with distribution certificate and dist. provisioning profile (app store). The resigned ipa is then distributed(OTA) to users and it will not install on their phones.
I followed the below steps to re-sign our ipa
unzip the app
unzip -q *.ipa
Remove the old signature
rm -rf Payload/*.app/_CodeSignature/
Replace embedded provisioning profile
cp "XXXXXXXXXX_distribution.mobileprovision" Payload/*.app/embedded.mobileprovision
Extract entitlements from app
codesign -d --entitlements :entitlements.plist Payload/*.app/
Re-sign embedded frameworks
codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: Certificate Name. (ABC44343XZ)" --entitlements entitlements.plist Payload/.app/Frameworks/
Re-sign the app (with entitlements)
codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: Certificate Name. (ABC44343XZ)" --entitlements entitlements.plist Payload/*.app/
Zip re-signed app
zip -qr resigned.ipa Payload
Cleanup
rm entitlements.plist
rm -r Payload/
Can I re-sign an app from a developer to distribute to app store? Can somebody tell me where I am going wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Note: I'm answering what you're saying in the comments
[Update] I received an email from apple with the following issue to be fixed "Invalid Swift Support - The SwiftSupport folder is missing. Rebuild your app using the current public (GM) version of Xcode and resubmit it." Can anyone help me here?
I can't do it directly on comments as I don't have enough reputation.
When you unzip the .ipa the first time, you should see at least four folders: one is the Payload (where you do all the signing operations, and changes regarding configuration), Symbols, BCSymbolMaps and a SwiftSupport folder. When you do the zip you have to add also the SwiftSupport folder to the .ipa:
zip -qr yourNewApp.ipa Payload/ SwiftSupport/
After doing this, you upload through Application Loader or you can validate your .ipa running this:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Application\ Loader.app/Contents/Frameworks/ITunesSoftwareService.framework/Support/altool -v -f yourNewApp.ipa -u yourItunesConnectUser#mail.com

Code resign using Ipa not failing with Installaation error-IOS

I am doing it through command line .The code is from third party developer.Previously it is working.Now it says Installation failed.
I use following code to resign
Unzip the .ipa file
unzip app.ipa
Delete the current code signature file
rm -rf Payload/MyApp.app/_CodeSignature/
Add in the new provisioning profile
cp ~/Downloads/AdHoc.mobileprovision Payload/MyApp.app/embedded.mobileprovision
resign the code
codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: Company Certificate" --resource-rules Payload/MyApp.app/ResourceRules.plist Payload/MyApp.app
rearchive the app into an .ipa file
zip -qr app-resigned.ipa Payload/
You also need to resign Framework, Dylibs, Appex,... files too.
But for best way to find problem of install, open XCode->Device and select your iphone to view log message when install failed.

Resigned ipa won't install on iPhone 5

I'm using the following terminal commands to re-sign an ipa: I unzip the ipa, copy in a new mobile provisioning profile, run codesign with a sign identity, and zip it back up into an ipa.
unzip -q My_App_Name.app
cp New_Mobile_Provision Payload/My_App_Name.app/embedded.mobileprovision
codesign -f -s 'my certificate' Payload/My_App_Name.app
zip -qr My_App_Name_Resigned.ipa Payload/
But when I use ios-deploy to try installing the result to an iPhone 5 (on iOS 9), it gets to 70% - verifying ipa- and fails. Anyone else seen this?
Look at files in .app directory.
There may be more than one executable, library or framework.
You need to replace all the signature of them.

re-sign IPA files

We have IPA file which is developed by another developer with his certificates.
We are trying to re-sign the IPA which is built and distributed using another developer certificate. Please let me know if you have done this before or have any idea about this.
Tried some solutions mentioned in below links however we were able to generate IPA but can't install it in a device.
We are trying it in iOS 8. Mac 10.10.
Re-signing is a multi-step process which can produce errors at each step. So please have patience and try to understand each step by itself.
# Start with files:
# .ipa-file 'MyApp.ipa'
# New provisioning profile 'profile.mobileprovision'
# Unpack the .ipa-file
unzip MyApp.ipa
# Extract the old entitlements from the binary
codesign -d --entitlements :- Payload/MyApp.app > entitlements_old.plist
# Extract the new entitlements from the provisioning profile
security cms -D -i profile.mobileprovision > profile.plist
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -x -c 'Print :Entitlements' profile.plist > entitlements.plist
Now there is a manual step to edit the entitlements.plist so the application-identifier is correct. Refer to the entitlements_old.plist as a reference, but note that the team identifiers at the beginning of the value should be different.
# Then replace the embedded provisioning profile
cp profile.mobileprovision Payload/MyApp.app/embedded.mobileprovision
# Re-sign the binary and update entitlements
#
# Note: replace "Firstname Lastname (TEAMID123)"
# with your certificate name
#
codesign -f -s "Firstname Lastname (TEAMID123)" \
--entitlements entitlements.plist \
Payload/MyApp.app
# Create ipa
zip -r MyApp2.ipa Payload/
Sadly, the error messages when something is wrong do not give any special information about what exactly is wrong. But it may be:
Wrong signing identity used
Entitlements mismatch between the binary and the provisioning profile
Try this software. It was working fine for me for re-signing IPA with enterprise certificates.
https://github.com/maciekish/iReSign

How to re-sign the ipa file?

How do I sign the .ipa file with a provisioning profile after I generate an IPA like the following with a different provision profile? I would like to sign the IPA with an ad-hoc provisioning profile for beta testing, and then re-sign the exact IPA with an app submission provisioning profile for the app store.
/usr/bin/xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v "${RELEASE_BUILDDIR}/${APPLICATION_NAME}.app" -o "${BUILD_HISTORY_DIR}/${APPLICATION_NAME}.ipa" --sign "${DEVELOPER_NAME}" --embed "${PROVISONING_PROFILE}"
It's really easy to do from the command line. I had a gist of a script for doing this. It has now been incorporated into the ipa_sign script in https://github.com/RichardBronosky/ota-tools which I use daily. If you have any questions about using these tools, don't hesitate to ask.
The heart of it is this:
CODESIGN_ALLOCATE=`xcrun --find codesign_allocate`; export CODESIGN_ALLOCATE
IPA="/path/to/file.ipa"
PROVISION="/path/to/file.mobileprovision"
CERTIFICATE="Name of certificate: To sign with" # must be in keychain
# unzip the ipa
unzip -q "$IPA"
# remove the signature
rm -rf Payload/*.app/_CodeSignature
# replace the provision
cp "$PROVISION" Payload/*.app/embedded.mobileprovision
# sign with the new certificate (--resource-rules has been deprecated OS X Yosemite (10.10), it can safely be removed)
/usr/bin/codesign -f -s "$CERTIFICATE" Payload/*.app
# zip it back up
zip -qr resigned.ipa Payload
Your new signed app is called resigned.ipa
Check iResign for an easy tool on how to do this!
[edit] after some fudling around, I found a solution to keychain-aware resigning. You can check it out at https://gist.github.com/Weptun/5406993
Kind of old question, but with the latest XCode, codesign is easy:
$ codesign -s my_certificate example.ipa
$ codesign -vv example.ipa
example.ipa: valid on disk
example.ipa: satisfies its Designated Requirement
The answers posted here all didn't quite work for me. They mainly skipped signing embedded frameworks (or including the entitlements).
Here's what's worked for me (it assumes that one ipa file exists is in the current directory):
PROVISION="/path/to/file.mobileprovision"
CERTIFICATE="Name of certificate: To sign with" # must be in the keychain
unzip -q *.ipa
rm -rf Payload/*.app/_CodeSignature/
# Replace embedded provisioning profile
cp "$PROVISION" Payload/*.app/embedded.mobileprovision
# Extract entitlements from app
codesign -d --entitlements :entitlements.plist Payload/*.app/
# Re-sign embedded frameworks
codesign -f -s "$CERTIFICATE" --entitlements entitlements.plist Payload/*.app/Frameworks/*
# Re-sign the app (with entitlements)
codesign -f -s "$CERTIFICATE" --entitlements entitlements.plist Payload/*.app/
zip -qr resigned.ipa Payload
# Cleanup
rm entitlements.plist
rm -r Payload/
Fastlane's sigh provides a fairly robust solution for resigning IPAs.
From their README:
Resign
If you generated your ipa file but want to apply a different code signing onto the ipa file, you can use sigh resign:
fastlane sigh resign
sigh will find the ipa file and the provisioning profile for you if they are located in the current folder.
You can pass more information using the command line:
fastlane sigh resign ./path/app.ipa --signing_identity "iPhone Distribution: Felix Krause" -p "my.mobileprovision"
It will even handle provisioning profiles for nested applications (eg. if you have watchkit apps)
I've updated Bryan's code for my Sierra iMac:
# this version was tested OK vith macOs Sierra 10.12.5 (16F73) on oct 0th, 2017
# original ipa file must be store in current working directory
IPA="ipa-filename.ipa"
PROVISION="path-to.mobileprovision"
CERTIFICATE="hexadecimal-certificate-identifier" # must be in keychain
# identifier maybe retrieved by running: security find-identity -v -p codesigning
# unzip the ipa
unzip -q "$IPA"
# remove the signature
rm -rf Payload/*.app/_CodeSignature
# replace the provision
cp "$PROVISION" Payload/*.app/embedded.mobileprovision
# generate entitlements for current app
cd Payload/
codesign -d --entitlements - *.app > entitlements.plist
cd ..
mv Payload/entitlements.plist entitlements.plist
# sign with the new certificate and entitlements
/usr/bin/codesign -f -s "$CERTIFICATE" '--entitlements' 'entitlements.plist' Payload/*.app
# zip it back up
zip -qr resigned.ipa Payload
Unzip the .ipa file by changing its extension with .zip
Go to Payload. You will find .app file
Right click the .app file and click Show package contents
Delete the _CodeSigned folder
Replace the embedded.mobileprovision file with the new provision profile
Go to KeyChain Access and make sure the certificate associated with the provisional profile is present
Execute the below mentioned command:
/usr/bin/codesign -f -s "iPhone Distribution: Certificate Name" --resource-rules "Payload/Application.app/ResourceRules.plist" "Payload/Application.app"
Now zip the Payload folder again and change the .zip extension with .ipa
Hope this helpful.
For reference follow below mentioned link:
http://www.modelmetrics.com/tomgersic/codesign-re-signing-an-ipa-between-apple-accounts/
Try this app
http://www.ketzler.de/2011/01/resign-an-iphone-app-insert-new-bundle-id-and-send-to-xcode-organizer-for-upload/
It supposed to help you resign the IPA file. I tried it myself but couldn't get pass an error with Entitlements.plist. Could just be a problem with my project. You should give it a try.
I have been using https://github.com/xndrs/XReSign and it is working really well.

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