App Centre UI Test Fails With Message Error: The .ipa file does not seem to be linked with Calabash framework. for Xamarin iOS

Craig McNicholas 96 Reputation points
2021-03-16T00:41:01.757+00:00

When publishing my ipa to test cloud I receive the above error. I have followed discussions in older articles:

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/59412/ipa-file-not-linked-with-calabash
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/85814/the-ipa-file-does-not-seem-to-be-linked-with-calabash-framework

etc.

I have double checked that I am:

  1. building in Debug
  2. My compiler directive looks like: DEBUG;ENABLE_TEST_CLOUD;
  3. I have added the code below to enable calabash in AppDelegate.FinishedLaunching

// starts calabash when built for test cloud
if ENABLE_TEST_CLOUD
Xamarin.Calabash.Start();
endif

The strange thing is if I remove the if compiler directive above and just put Xamarin.Calabash.Start(); in the function then it works as expected.

It's almost like my compiler directive is not being honoured but I have double and triple checked, see image below.

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  1. Craig McNicholas 96 Reputation points
    2021-03-16T10:11:05.163+00:00

    I managed to solve it.

    My Debug configuration was set to iPhoneSimulator rather than iPhone. Changing this my configuration settings allowed this to build correctly and now works with test cloud

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  1. Cole Xia (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 6,751 Reputation points
    2021-03-16T06:23:48.423+00:00

    Hello,

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

    I'm not quite sure if this is the problem, but could you try to modify your code as below 

       // add # at beginning  
   #if ENABLE_TEST_CLOUD  
               Xamarin.Calabash.Start();  
   #endif

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