[Bug] building for any mac from an Intel mac does not build metacodable framework as universal

[robaho]

Building my project for "Any Mac" does not build the metacodable framework as universal, so when the application is started, it immediately crashes with:

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process:               Seahorse OSX [24061]
Path:                  /Volumes/NETWORK/*/Seahorse OSX.app/Contents/MacOS/Seahorse OSX
Identifier:            com.eolcoder.SeahorseOSX
Version:               1.0 (1.0)
Code Type:             ARM-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2025-02-21 13:52:54.5771 -0600
OS Version:            macOS 15.3.1 (24D70)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        A585B7F8-B1FB-F97D-44A8-E4BF8E81E5B9

Sleep/Wake UUID:       106D7B90-0F91-40F2-AA52-DEDF5407D2FE

Time Awake Since Boot: 53000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       2415 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason:    Namespace DYLD, Code 1 Library missing
Library not loaded: @rpath/MetaCodable.framework/Versions/A/MetaCodable
Referenced from: <C18762B5-FBF3-39EF-AC5A-962059E0B2C1> /Volumes/NETWORK/*/Seahorse OSX.app/Contents/MacOS/Seahorse OSX
Reason: tried: '/Users/robertengels/Seahorse/DerivedData/Seahorse/Build/Products/Debug/PackageFrameworks/MetaCodable.framework/Versions/A/MetaCodable' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Users/robertengels/Seahorse/DerivedData/Seahorse/Build/Products/Debug/PackageFrameworks/MetaCodable.framework/Versions/A/MetaCodable' (no such file), '/Volumes/robertengels/Seahorse/DerivedData/Seahorse/Build/Products/Debug/Seahorse OSX.app/Contents/MacOS/Frameworks/MetaCodable.framework/Versions/A/MetaCodable' (no such file), '/Users/robertengels/Seahorse/DerivedData/Seahorse/Build/Products/Debug/PackageFrameworks/MetaCodable.framework/Versions/A/MetaCodable' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Users/robertengels/Seahorse/DerivedData/Seahorse/
(terminated at launch; ignore backtrace)

OSX 13.7.3
XCode 15.2
Swift 5.9.2

The file is actually present at the path /Users/robertengels/Seahorse/DerivedData/Seahorse/Build/Products/Debug/PackageFrameworks/MetaCodable.framework/Versions/A/MetaCodable but it is not a universal binary so it doesn't load.

[robaho]

closing. I checked the file, and it has both architectures, so something else is happening.

[robaho]

I re-opened this, because I can't figure out what is going on. The build runs fine on Intel, but trying on Arm it fails with the above error - which makes me think it is something related to MetaCodable.

I built an archive in XCode, and copied the full application to the M1 machine, and I receive the same error - so it doesn't appear related to not actually finding the file.

[robaho]

Running file on the file, I see:

MetaCodable: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64] [arm64:Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library arm64]
MetaCodable (for architecture x86_64):	Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library x86_64
MetaCodable (for architecture arm64):	Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library arm64

[soumyamahunt]

@robaho can you share a sample project that can reproduce this issue?

[soumyamahunt]

Moving to discussion as this doesn't seem to be MetaCodable related.

[robaho]

Sorry, I have deprioritized using MetaCodable. t had too many issues, like this, and often it would cause the editor to crash, as the parsing would get confused during edits. I switched to using protobufs and managing the persistence directly.

[soumyamahunt]

Thanks @robaho for the clarification, I am going ahead and closing this discussion now.