Xcode ios build not signing properly

[Tony Pitman]

I am trying to build the Chromium source for ios from github.

I followed the instructions for building chromium "chrome" target in xcode.

I have tried both automatic provisioning and manual with a provisioning profile I created on apple's website. I am not perfect, but have built enough ios apps to be very familiar with that process.

I have changed the chromium bundle id prefix to be my own so I can directly control it and the profiles.

I am building the chrome target and the bundle id is coming out as {myprefix}.chrome.ios.dev and that matches my apple signing profile that I created and downloaded.

I get a successful build in xcode, but when I try to debug the app on my iphone 8 I get the following error when it tries to install on the device:

Showing Recent Messages Recovery Suggestion: Failed to verify code signature of /var/installd/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.ohBUtA/extracted/Chromium.app : 0xe8008015 (A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found.)

I also ran codesign -dv --verbose on the app and it seems to show that it is signed and the bundle id matches the profile I made and downloaded.

Does anyone know why my signing would not be working? It doesn't seem to use the normal signing scripts and uses something called ninja build scripts.

[Mike Dougherty]

There are some details regarding provisioning for installing on device here.

Specifically, did you also create profiles for the extensions? (Or else disable some/all of them with the args in chrome_build.gni)

- Mike

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[Mike Dougherty]

I believe ios_enable_search_widget_extension is the "TodayExtension". See https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:ios/chrome/search_widget_extension/appex/BUILD.gn;l=46

Specifically regarding provisioning and how to set that up, I'm not sure. However, you should be able to find those answers online or in Apple documentation as it pertains more generally to how apple signs applications containing widgets/extensions.

Also, to make sure the rest of your setup is ok, can you successfully build and run for simulator?

- Mike

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM Tony Pitman <to...@shatalmic.com> wrote:

I do not see anything in the .gn file related to "today", but there is a bundle id called TodayExtension. How do I disable that one?

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 2:53 PM Tony Pitman <to...@shatalmic.com> wrote:

I noticed in the .gn file that there are more "extensions" listed that can be true / false than the list of provisioning profiles. Do I need a profile for each one in that file or are the others somehow not needed? If they are needed, what are the URLs for them?

For example there is an entry in the .gn file called ios_enable_search_widget_extension, but I don't see anything related to that in the profile list on the page you referenced.

I want to try disabling those extensions to see if it will then run on my phone.

If I just set everything that is true in that file to false, then I get a build error when trying to gen the ninja files.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 2:43 PM Tony Pitman <to...@shatalmic.com> wrote:

I was wondering about that part.

I am not sure how to do that. When I create a provisioning profile in my apple account, the first drop down is the app id. Does this mean I have to create an app id for all of those? I don't understand how that would work. I am not creating all those apps.

I do want to include the functionality that those ids implies, however, so I am not sure I want to turn them off.

Please help me understand exactly what is going on here.

Thank you!

[Tony Pitman]

I was wondering about that part.

I am not sure how to do that. When I create a provisioning profile in my apple account, the first drop down is the app id. Does this mean I have to create an app id for all of those? I don't understand how that would work. I am not creating all those apps.

I do want to include the functionality that those ids implies, however, so I am not sure I want to turn them off.

Please help me understand exactly what is going on here.

Thank you!

On Friday, April 12, 2024 at 2:40:10 PM UTC-6 Mike Dougherty wrote:

[Tony Pitman]

Thank you. I week see if I can find something about signing extensions.

It does run in the simulator.

[Tony Pitman]

I noticed in the .gn file that there are more "extensions" listed that can be true / false than the list of provisioning profiles. Do I need a profile for each one in that file or are the others somehow not needed? If they are needed, what are the URLs for them?

For example there is an entry in the .gn file called ios_enable_search_widget_extension, but I don't see anything related to that in the profile list on the page you referenced.

I want to try disabling those extensions to see if it will then run on my phone.

If I just set everything that is true in that file to false, then I get a build error when trying to gen the ninja files.

[Tony Pitman]

I do not see anything in the .gn file related to "today", but there is a bundle id called TodayExtension. How do I disable that one?