I've looked through already existing questions, but none has solved my problems (like recreating certificates). I've built an app where inside the app I have few executables and folders and frameworks. Whenever I try to do codesign -s "our identity" my.app always gives no identity found. Can someone give a step by step process of this.
codesign -s "Developer ID Application: Sai***** (123123123J)" out/Release/Sai.app
Error
Developer ID Application: Sai****** (123123123J): no identity found,
I tried removing "Developer ID Application" and the serial number, but everything gives the same error
Looking for help in these lines
Thank You
I had some trouble with this as well. Double-check that your code-signing identity is in your keychain, and you might consider using the SHA-1 fingerprint instead of the name after the -s.
You can find the SHA-1 fingerprint by opening up Keychain Access
and selecting your Developer ID Application: FOO
certificate, and then choosing Get Info. From here, scroll to the bottom of the information until you reach Fingerprints. The SHA-1 fingerprint here can be copied and you will have to remove all of the spaces, but after that you will have a 40-character identifier which will be appropriate for placing after the -s
in your codesign statement.
If you are still having problems locating the key, try the following from Terminal:
certtool y | grep Developer\ ID
and look for anything with Developer ID Application
in the Common Name
to verify that the certificate is actually in a keychain that is accessible from Terminal. If you don't see anything in response, that would indicate that the keychain containing your credentials is unavailable to your Terminal
session. Reasons for this would include things like the keychain being locked, the shell running as another user, executing the command with different permissions (such as sudo
).
After executing the command above, you should have at a minimum the following:
Developer ID Application: <your company name>
Developer ID Installer: <your company name>
Developer ID Certification Authority
If you don't have all three, you should go and download the missing elements. Although you may not currently need to build an Installer, there's no harm in having it around. The Application and Installer elements can be downloaded from the Mac Certificates section of the Certificates, Identifiers, & Profiles tab on Apple's Developer site. You should have listings there that are not expired. You may have listings there as well that have expired. To install the certificates in your keychain:
The Developer ID Certification Authority should have been installed by Xcode, but if it wasn't, you can install it yourself. You will need to download that separately from Developer ID Authority or by clicking on the + link in Certificates tab and use the link at the bottom to download the Certificate.
This would also be a good time to make sure that you have the Apple Worldwide Developer Relations Certification Authority, which is the basis for some of the signing tools. It should be installed in your System keychain, by the Xcode installer and can be downloaded directly from the + link in the Certificates tab above or from Apple WWDR CA.
According to Apple's App Distribution Guide, there are specific keychains that are appropriate for each of the Certificates and keys:
Because Xcode automatically manipulates the keychains, and because some certificates are re-issued regularly when profiles change (although not for Developer ID, since it has multi-year certificates and doesn't require profiles), you can end up with a propagation of unnecessary and potentially confusing certificates in your keychain. It is a good idea to clean these out when they have expired, as they can create some confusion for Xcode.
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Things to do: