“Warning: iPhone apps should include an armv6 arch

Question

It's been a while since I've had to adjust project build settings. After upgrading to a recent SDK I'm having trouble building my ad hoc distribution configuration.

Build generates this warning and error:

warning: iPhone apps should include an armv6 architecture (current ARCHS = "armv7")

iPhone/iPod Touch: application executable is missing a required architecture. At least one of the following architecture(s) must be present: armv6 (-19033)

However in my project I thought I had things set correctly:

• Architectures is: Standard (armv6 armv7)
• Base SDK: Latest iOS (currently set to iOS 4.2)
• Valid Architectures: armv6 armv7

I have cleaned all targets.

I appreciate any tips.

Answer 1

I had this problem too. I just set my deployment target to 4.3 and left only armv7 architecture and it worked. At point almost everyone has 5, so 4.3 is fine.

Answer 2

After trying a mixture of these answers, I finally stumbled across making it work. Im so pissed off at Apple right now. Just another hour they made me waste. Here is my config.

Answer 3

Wow, I update/submit apps about every 6 months. Every time I do this I have to learn the "new" way to do it...

Same problems as described above when running iOS 5.1, and Xcode 4.3.2

Thanks for the posts! I spent a while updating all of the project settings to armv6, armv7, but no joy. When I set "build active architecture only" to No I got a build error about putting both objects in the same directory.

Fortunately, I noticed you guys were modifying the target build settings instead. This is what finally worked (armv6, armv7, and setting "build active architecture only" to No under the Target build Settings). As a disclaimer, I had already set all of the architectures to armv6, armv7 in the project settings too.

Anyway, thanks for the help, Brent

Answer 4

If you uncheck "Build Active Architecture Only", then it will build all the valid architectures.

Update: This is no longer applicable as of Xcode 4 - follow Nick's instructions for Xcode 4 and later.

Answer 5

If xCode keep complaining about armv7, make sure you disconnect any connect device (especially iPhone 5!!) and try again. Took me hours to find out that little piece of information.

Answer 6

Here is Apple's documentation:

Technical Q&A QA1760

It says there are two things that you must get right:

1. Add armv6 to the Architecture build settings
2. Set Build Active Architecture Only to No.

If this still doesn't help you, double check that you are really changing the architecture build settings for the right build configuration – I wasted half an hour fiddling with the wrong one and wondering why it didn't work...

Select Edit Scheme... in the Product menu, click the "Archive" scheme in the left list and check the Build Configuration. Change the value if it was not what you expected.