How to symbolicate crash log with Xcode 7?

Question

So the technique I was using with Xcode 6 appears to be deprecated, the symbolicatecrash.sh script is not located in the xcode bundle anymore. Instead there is an executable named symbolicatecrash in the same folder path as Xcode 6 had the script.

Anyone know where Apple moved symbolicatecrash.sh for manual symbolication? The script from Xcode 6 gives errors running with Xcode 7.

Zenaidazenana

@null organizer does not symbolicate for me, so it's not a sure fire thing for everyone – Mathematician

@Mathematician there are ways to solve that, specifically you need to make sure your build settings are correctly configured (see here: support.hockeyapp.net/kb/client-integration-ios-mac-os-x/…). It's worth taking the time getting xcode to work properly since using the Organizer is soooo much easier than manual symbolication. – Paraphernalia

@Paraphernalia I did eventually get it symbolicated doing it manually. I'll look at hockey app. – Mathematician

If you're using PLCrashReporter as I am you are getting reports that never come thru Apple into Xcode organizer. I rarely if ever see an Organizer crash reported. Command line symbolication works just fine with the accepted answer. – Zenaidazenana

Answer 1

I have Xcode 7 installed and symbolicatecrash in /usr/bin is a symbolic link to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DTDeviceKitBase.framework/Versions/A/Resources/symbolicatecrash.

I have no problem manually symbolicating crash reports with Xcode 7 just as I have for the last several releases of Xcode.

BTW - it's still a perl script as always.

And be sure you have installed the Xcode command line tools.

Update

With Xcode 7.3 the location of symbolicatecrash is /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Resources/symbolicatecrash.

I've also seen that since upgrading to OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), there is no longer a symbolic link in /usr/bin.

Devindevina

Thanks, its been so long that I needed to manually symbolicate a PLCrashReporter file I forgot where I had this sh wrapper from! Still getting an odd error to figure out where symbolicatecrash emits "xcodebuild: error: SDK 'ipados' cannot be located" and then chokes up. – Zenaidazenana

@Devindevina could you please show what that line in terminal looks like? I have the .dYSM files and crash file, but can't figure out the terminal command. Thanks! – Kenleigh

@Zenaidazenana did you ever find a solution to your "xcodebuild: error: SDK 'ipados' cannot be located"? – Hexosan

@Hexosan the script pulls this from the Hardware model line of the crash log. I was pressed for time and just changed it to iPhone instead of iPad. Didn't look into why it got confused. – Zenaidazenana

in Xcode7.3, it's in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Resources/symbolicatecrash – Disinherit