Xcode 6 Standard Architectures Exclude Armv7S

Xcode 6 Standard architectures exclude armv7s

I also filed a bug on this and got a reply stating that this is intentional. If you want to build for armv7s you have to add the architecture manually. I have now idea why this change was made. I'll update this if I get additional information.

Update from the dev forums:

The reason for including armv7s would be marginal backward compatibility. But the general differences between armv7 and armv7s instruction sets are minor. So if you choose not to include armv7s, the targeted armv7 machine code still runs fine on 32 bit A6 devices, and hardly one will notice performance gap.

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Xcode building for iOS Simulator, but linking in an object file built for iOS, for architecture 'arm64'

Basically, you have to exclude arm64 for the simulator architecture, both from your project and the Pod project.

• To do that, navigate to Build Settings of your project and add Any iOS Simulator SDK with value arm64 inside Excluded Architecture.

  

OR

• If you are using custom XCConfig files, you can simply add this line for excluding simulator architecture.

  EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*] = arm64
  

  Then

  You have to do the same for the Pod project until all the Cocoa pod vendors are done adding following in their Podspec.

  s.pod_target_xcconfig = { 'EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]' => 'arm64' }
  s.user_target_xcconfig = { 'EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]' => 'arm64' }
  

  You can manually add the Excluded Architecture in your Pod project's Build Settings, but it will be overwritten when you
  use pod install.

  In place of this, you can add this snippet in your Podfile. It will write the necessary Build Settings every time you run pod install.

  post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings["EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]"] = "arm64"
    end
  end
  

Xcode building for iOS Simulator, but linking in an object file built for iOS, for architecture 'arm64'

Basically, you have to exclude arm64 for the simulator architecture, both from your project and the Pod project.

• To do that, navigate to Build Settings of your project and add Any iOS Simulator SDK with value arm64 inside Excluded Architecture.

  

OR

• If you are using custom XCConfig files, you can simply add this line for excluding simulator architecture.

  EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*] = arm64
  

  Then

  You have to do the same for the Pod project until all the Cocoa pod vendors are done adding following in their Podspec.

  s.pod_target_xcconfig = { 'EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]' => 'arm64' }
  s.user_target_xcconfig = { 'EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]' => 'arm64' }
  

  You can manually add the Excluded Architecture in your Pod project's Build Settings, but it will be overwritten when you
  use pod install.

  In place of this, you can add this snippet in your Podfile. It will write the necessary Build Settings every time you run pod install.

  post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.build_configurations.each do |config|
      config.build_settings["EXCLUDED_ARCHS[sdk=iphonesimulator*]"] = "arm64"
    end
  end
  

Xcode 12 - No architectures to compile for (ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=YES, active arch=x86_64, VALID_ARCHS=arm64e armv7s arm64 arm7)

If you can't see "VALID_ARCHS" in BuildSettings.
You can click the plus button.

click "Add User-Defined Setting"

Input setting name "VALID_ARCHS" , input value "arm64 arm64e armv7 armv7s x86_64"

Xcode 6.1 Missing required architecture X86_64 in file

• The first thing you should make sure is that your static library has all architectures. When you do a lipo -info myStaticLibrary.a on terminal - you should see armv7 armv7s i386 x86_64 arm64 architectures for your fat binary.

• To accomplish that, I am assuming that you're making a universal binary - add the following to your architecture settings of static library project -

• So, you can see that I have to manually set the Standard architectures (including 64-bit) (armv7, armv7s, arm64) of the static library project.

• Alternatively, since the normal $ARCHS_STANDARD now includes 64-bit. You can also do $(ARCHS_STANDARD) and armv7s. Check lipo -info without it, and you'll figure out the missing architectures. Here's the screenshot for all architectures -

• For your reference implementation (project using static library). The default settings should work fine -

  

Update 12/03/14
Xcode 6 Standard architectures exclude armv7s.

So, armv7s is not needed? Yes. It seems that the general differences between armv7 and armv7s instruction sets are minor. So if you choose not to include armv7s, the targeted armv7 machine code still runs fine on 32 bit A6 devices, and hardly one will notice performance gap. Source

If there is a smarter way for Xcode 6.1+ (iOS 8.1 and above) - please share.

How does removing armv7s xCode 4.6 valid architecture project property affect App Store distribution of my iOS apps?

I recently ran into the same problem with a static library. We built for armv7 only until an update to the library was released that was built for armv7s as well.

The only thing that not having armv7s will affect is that the app won't be optimized for any new logic that armv7s brings over armv7. The new arm processors should be backwards compatible with armv7 so future devices should work fine with a build for armv7.

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