Xcode 6 Archiving and get a warning “Skipping copy phase strip ,binary is code signed” when add “share extension” to target

Question

I got this warning when I added share extension to my project and archiving it warning: skipping copy phase strip, binary is code signed: /Users/xxxx/xxx/xxxx/

Answer 1

I experienced the same warning and solved it by setting "Strip Debug Symbols During Copy" to "NO" in Build Settings of the containing app(not the extension), as you knew.

On the other hand, changing the same setting of the extension had no effect. This make clear the actual meaning of the warning. That is, stripping symbol does not mean the symbols "of the target" will be striped, but does mean the target will try to strip symbols "of embedded binaries".

Consequently, I believe the actual meaning of the warning would be that Xcode can't strip out debug symbols of the extension binary while archiving the container app, because the extension binary which need to be embedded in the container app "was" already compiled and frozen by code-signing before Xcode tries to strip out symbols of the extension binary while archiving the container app.

It seems like Xcode's default build settings related to striping debug symbols of the embedded extension binaries needs to be correctly updated not to show this warning.