RolfKvinge.StripReplacement

This is a NuGet that provides a prebuilt strip tool with the fix for xamarin/xamarin-macios#19157 (apple-oss-distributions/cctools#2).

Important

If you're here, please take the time to file a feedback ticket with Apple to hopefully entice them to fix this, that way this workaround won't be necessary.

Feel free to reference the pull request with the fix: apple-oss-distributions/cctools#2, and also the existing feedback ticket I raised (FB13327641).

Note

This is a personal project, not an official project from Microsoft.

To build

1. Presumably you have Xcode installed already, otherwise you wouldn't have reached this place. This was tested with Xcode 16.1.

2. Clone this repository

   $ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rolfbjarne/RolfKvinge.StripReplacement

3. Build.

   $ make

4. If support for Xcode 16.1 has not been released for the iOS workload (which has not happened at the time of this writing):

   1. Replace the strip binary in Xcode with the one built here.

      $ echo "Will overwrite this file: $(xcrun -f strip)"
      $ cp external/cctools/build/Release/strip "$(xcrun -f strip)"

   2. Now build your project.

5. If support for Xcode 16.1 has been released ¹, you can use the NuGet instead, by:

   1. Add a NuGet.config to your project with a feed that points to the directory where the nupkg is located:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
      <configuration>
      	<packageSources>
      		<add key="local-tests-feed" value="/absolute/path/to/RolfKvinge.StripReplacement/bin/Release" />
      	</packageSources>
      </configuration>

   2. Reference the NuGet in your csproj:

      <ItemGroup>
      	<PackageReference Include="RolfKvinge.StripReplacement" Version="0.1.0" />
      </ItemGroup>

   3. Now build your project.

I might at some point put the package on NuGet.org after support for Xcode 16.1 has been released.

Footnotes

1. This is because the release with support Xcode 16.1 has this change: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/pull/21581 ↩