Externals in 4.6.1

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Externals in 4.6.1

Post by CALL-151 » Sun May 08, 2011 11:29 am

Revision 35 of the iOS release notes (page 18) states:

"The revZip, revXML, dbSqlite (via revDB) and dbMysql (via revDB) externals can now be used on iOS.
To include these components, simply check the appropriate boxes on the iOS Standalone Settings Pane."

When I attempt to create a Standalone with any of these selected, the resulting app bundle is missing the CodeResources file (and the _CodeSignature folder).

Is anyone else having this problem? Has anyone found a solution?

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Re: Externals in 4.6.1- UPDATE

Post by CALL-151 » Mon May 09, 2011 10:10 pm

Thanks to RunRev's Jacqueline Gay for assisting me with this issue. If you're having difficulty building an iOS Standalone with externals, here's a workaround until this apparent bug in 4.6.1 is fixed.

1. Go to http://www.gorbster.net/blog/archives/273 and download AppResigner. Read the instructions on the site.
2. Drag your standalone app to AppResigner and use the default profile it suggests (unless you have more than one)- again, read the instructions on the website for specifics.
3. AppResigner will appear to fail with an error message. Ignore this. Despite the apparent error, a valid signature has been created and the needed CodeResources file added to your app bundle.
4. Install your app on your device as usual.

Assuming that I'm not the only one with this problem, could someone please report this as a bug at http://quality.runrev.com. I have not been able to log into this site with my RunRev account and for the life of me I can't figure out how to create an account.

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Re: Externals in 4.6.1

Post by CALL-151 » Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:54 pm

I'm happy to report that this issue has been fixed in 4.6.2

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