Xcode 4: Create Ipa File Instead of .Xcarchive

Xcode 4: create IPA file instead of .xcarchive

Creating an IPA is done along the same way as creating an .xcarchive: Product -> Archive. After the Archive operation completes, go to the Organizer, select your archive, select Share and in the "Select the content and options for sharing:" pane set Contents to "iOS App Store Package (.ipa) and Identity to iPhone Distribution (which should match your ad hoc/app store provisioning profile for the project).

Chances are the "iOS App Store Package (.ipa)" option may be disabled. This happens when your build produces more than a single target: say, an app and a library. All of them end up in the build products folder and Xcode gets naïvely confused about how to package them both into an .ipa file, so it merely disables the option.

A way to solve this is as follows: go through build settings for each of the targets, except the application target, and set Skip Install flag to YES. Then do the Product -> Archive tango once again and go to the Organizer to select your new archive. Now, when clicking on the Share button, the .ipa option should be enabled.

I hope this helps.

How to convert .xcarchive to .ipa for client to submit app to app store using Application Loader

I also observed the same problem in one of my projects.

I resolved it by changing settings in target. For main project and dependency.

 skip Install  NO

After this change, goto Xcode->Product->Archive->Save for Enterprise or Ad-Hoc Deployment

We followed the same process and uploaded through Application Loader and Apple approved the app.

How to create an IPA without having Developer Account in IOS in react-native in Updated OS and Xcode?

If you have a Provisioning Profile in Xcode then below method will 100% work as it works for me :

Step:1 Create Archive

Step:2 Right-Click on the Archive and Click Show in Finder.

Step:3 You can see .xcarchive file in Finder.

Step:4 Right CLick on the .xcarchive file and click Show package content and go to the Products -> Applications folder. Create a new folder named Payload and drag the .app file into that folder.

Step:5 Compress [Create Zip File] the Payload folder and rename it to whatever you want and change the extention to .ipa.

Step:6 Upload that .ipa file in Diawi website and share it with Client.

do we need a Mac device to create ipa file from windows machine?

Yes, we still need a mac to generate the ipa file .

Because before the step we need to select the provisioning profile , which is only accessible once connecting to mac.

Refer to Creating an IPA from visual Studio for windows.

Can a xcarchive file be created from a ipa file?

No. The xcarchive includes dSYM information that is not included in the ipa-file.

The archive command uses the archive action in the scheme specified on the command line. The project is either guessed by xcodebuild or specified as a command line parameter.

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