[Interest] debug symbols in OSX application builds

[Hamish Moffatt]

On 01/08/16 17:44, Nuno Santos wrote:
> Is this procedure valid for iOS as well? I have the same problem with 
> my deployed apps. I can’t see where they crashes from crash reports.
>
>> On 01 Aug 2016, at 08:14, Hamish Moffatt <hamish at risingsoftware.com 
>> <mailto:hamish at risingsoftware.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Yup, got it. So it seems the correct approach for getting annotated 
>> crash dumps on Mac is to extract the symbols at build time before 
>> strip, using dsymutil, save the resulting .dSYM package forever, and 
>> then annotate the crash dump later using Xcode, symbolicatecrash, 
>> Xsymbolicate or some other tool with the saved symbols.
>>
>> The hardest part seems to be annotating the dump later. Most of the 
>> tools don't work.
>

I thought it might just work for iOS. The ipa files are basically a 
bundle of the .app and the .dSYM. You should be able to fetch crash 
reports in Xcode, in theory, and Xcode will symbolicate them for you. 
But I haven't tried that, and I couldn't get that to work for OS X apps.


Hamish

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