application executable is missing a required architecture armv6

Question

I am using xCode 4.2 and trying to deploy my application. I am failing the validation with the following error message:

application executable is missing a          


        

Answer 1

My environment was Xcode 4.5.1. Changing two things solved this issue for me.

1. Setting the deployment target to at least iOS 4.3.
2. Keeping only armv7 architecture in the Architectures list under build settings and removing all others (including armv6) explicitly.