Symbolicate adhoc iphone app crashes

Question

I can\'t manage to make my code symbolicated ... I read the part \"below\" :

Given a crash report, the matching binary, and its .dSYM file, symbolicat

Answer 1

I've been struggling with this for several days and finally figured it out. I wasn't able to get symbolicated logs from any Archived application I installed to my phone. For me, it was a problem with the build settings, although I did notice that it was able to symbolicate logs from some older builds as well after I followed these steps. YMMV may vary with crash logs from older builds. I was able to get symbolicated logs after following these steps in Xcode 4.0.1 on iOS 4.3.1.

In the Xcode Project navigator, click on your project and then click Build Settings. When you archive your application, Xcode uses the Release configuration by default. You'll want to set the following values for the Release configuration only, so you'll have to expand any settings that aren't already expanded to allow you to set it on a per-configuration basis.

Ensure these values are set for the Release configuration:

• Generate Debug Symbols: Yes
• Debug Information Format: DWARF with dSYM File
• Deployment Postprocessing: Yes
• Strip Linked Product: Yes
• Use Separate Strip: Yes
• Strip Debug Symbols During Copy: No
• Strip Style: All Symbols

Once those are set, Archive and reinstall your application. New crash reports generated from the resulting archive should be symbolicated correctly. For me, many old crash reports also symbolicated correctly after following these steps although I'm not sure how accurate the results would be if the builds were very different.

For reference, I figured all this out after studying this page: http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/symbolizingcrashdumps.html

I also found this page, which is handy if you're trying to figure out what a particular build setting does: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/XcodeBuildSettingRef/1-Build_Setting_Reference/build_setting_ref.html

Hope this helps!

Dan