Error: An empty identity is not valid when signing a binary for the product type 'Application'. (in target 'Validator')

[sargent-mg]

Hi guys:

After updating to Xcode 10.2 and Swift 5, when executing carthage update I get the following error:

error: An empty identity is not valid when signing a binary for the product type 'Application'. (in target 'Validator')

Try again on a new project and throw the same error.

Can someone help me please?

Best regards.

Adrián López Rendón

[jcarioti]

Same issue here. Xcode updated to 10.2 today and now this package is our only dependency that's trying (and failing) to do code signing.

[AlbertArredondoAlfaro]

Well, actually the project is not migrated to Swift 5.0. Could it be the reason?

[AlbertArredondoAlfaro]

What I do to solve the problem so far was to recompile the framework manually and overwrite the SwiftValidator.framework on the Carthage directory.

[jcarioti]

What I do to solve the problem so far was to recompile the framework manually and overwrite the SwiftValidator.framework on the Carthage directory.

I've pulled Albert's changes and tried Carthage update --platform iOS and I'm still getting the exact same error.

https://github.com/AlbertArredondoAlfaro/SwiftValidator/tree/swift-5.0

When I load the project in Xcode and use my team's provisioning profile, it builds successfully. I would love to get native Carthage support working again.

[AlbertArredondoAlfaro]

Hi jcarioti,

I just press Cmd+B to build the project, pick the framework generated from the Product folder and copy/paste it on the Carthage folder.

I think that the problem with the provisioning profile should be fixed by the people in charge of the project, but I'm not sure. So far, you could use the framework the way I tell you and either wait for the PR to be accepted or fixed by the project maintainers.

Have a nice day.

[csabagyarmati]

The problem is that the project file contains the "Validator" Application in Targets.
If you delete this target from the project file, Carthage will compile it successfully.

[AlbertArredondoAlfaro]

Yes @csabagyarmati, you right. Thank you so much!

I have updated the Pull Request with the @csabagyarmati fix and I also updated the travis.yml file to use Xcode 10.2.

@sargent-mg @jcarioti Now you can use Carthage update using my fork.

[pbyorke]

Albert, I am not sophisticated in Carthage, or in GitHub for that matter, but I tried putting:

github "AlbertArredondoAlfaro/SwiftValidator"

In my Cartfile, and I am still getting the empty identity error. Did I misunderstand your instructions?

[AlbertArredondoAlfaro]

Hi,

You need to specify the branch as well, like this:

github "AlbertArredondoAlfaro/SwiftValidator" "swift-5.0"

[pbyorke]

It works! Thank you so much! I have learned two good lessons, one is that I can pick a specific branch in my github statement and the other I've learned about the Issues function. I had never really even looked at it before :)