Failing to build Ejectify

[SukkaW]

I am more than happy to purchase Ejectify with 3 USD, but I want to give it a shot first, so I cloned the repo and tried to build using Xcode 16 with the following command:

# Since xcodeproj has codesign configured, I explicitly disabled signing
xcodebuild clean build CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="" CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO

However, the build failed with LaunchAtLogin dependency:

** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
	Copy /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos/build/Release/Ejectify.app/Contents/Resources/LaunchAtLogin_LaunchAtLogin.bundle /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos/build/Release/LaunchAtLogin_LaunchAtLogin.bundle (in target 'Ejectify' from project 'Ejectify')
(1 failure)

Any clue about what happened?

[nielsmouthaan]

Builds fine using Xcode 16 here. It might be related to disabling code signing? Can you try to sign using your own ID?

[SukkaW]

Builds fine using Xcode 16 here. It might be related to disabling code signing? Can you try to sign using your own ID?

Thanks for your reply ❤️ !

I have noticed that codesigning is enabled in the project, but I don't want to change it. I am using the following command to explicitly disable codesigning with CLI:

xcodebuild clean build CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="" CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO

I am seeing the following stdout at the start of the build:

User defaults from command line:
    IDEPackageSupportUseBuiltinSCM = YES

Build settings from command line:
    CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY =
    CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED = NO

So it seems that the codesigning was disabled.

Also, it seems that the xcodebuild has failed to copy/link the LaunchAtLogin_LaunchAtLogin.bundle, and this happened before the Running Script (copy-helper-swiftpm.sh) was able to execute.

Copy /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos/build/Release/Ejectify.app/Contents/Resources/LaunchAtLogin_LaunchAtLogin.bundle /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos/build/Release/LaunchAtLogin_LaunchAtLogin.bundle (in target 'Ejectify' from project 'Ejectify')
    cd /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos
    builtin-copy -exclude .DS_Store -exclude CVS -exclude .svn -exclude .git -exclude .hg -resolve-src-symlinks /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos/build/Release/LaunchAtLogin_LaunchAtLogin.bundle /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos/build/Release/Ejectify.app/Contents/Resources
error: /Users/[redacted]/ejectify-macos/build/Release/LaunchAtLogin_LaunchAtLogin.bundle: No such file or directory (in target 'Ejectify' from project 'Ejectify')

[nielsmouthaan]

Sorry, I don't have time to support you with this. Please ask this question on SO, or something.

[rcoup]

IME:

• In Xcode 16, create a personal dev account (Settings...Accounts... add personal account using your Apple ID)
• Select the personal account under the Ejectify target: Signing & Capabilities... Signing... Team. Then for Signing Certificate select "Sign to Run Locally".

• Verify a build works via Product... Build For... Running
• Create an archive via Product... Archive
• In the archive window choose your build and select Distribute App... Custom... Copy App... and save it somewhere. Copy the app file from there to your Applications folder.

[SukkaW]

IME:

Thanks for your instruction!