Xamarin build-times extremely slow

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Léon picture Léon · Dec 2, 2016 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I have developed several (experimental and prototype) iOS apps using Xamarin and the new Visual Studio for Mac OS and the build-times intermittently take about 5-10 minutes on average. When starting a new project, build-times are fine. After a few changes in the source code while working on my apps (no specific changes). For no reason, build times start increasing to 5-10 minutes. I've tried all possible build-options (linking, no linking, SDK versions, new consigning certificate, etc..).

Upon investigation with the Activities-app (Mac OS, Sierra) i find that the "codesign" process is taking up 110% CPU and runs for as long as the build takes to complete.

Does anyone have any experience with this problem?

Answer

Mina Fawzy picture Mina Fawzy · Feb 20, 2017

I have the same issue

First Try close Visual Studio then delete bin , obj from your project , finally start visual Build and Run

Second Try make sure you build in real device sometimes emulator cause trouble , how you make sure , if build success but deploy stuck many times

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