Failed to strip binary - have you seen this error?

iOS
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I know this is more a Xamarin error than Monogame, but I figured it was worth asking the question…

My iOS game builds and runs fine in debug mode on both simulator and device - but trying to build the app store version gives me this error:

Error MT5204: Failed to strip the final binary. Please review the build log. (MT5204)

Has anyone here had to deal with this before, and if so - how did you get past it?

I’ve got Xamarin looking into it, but like I said - I figured it was worth asking.

Thanks.

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Check your link option. It probably differs from your debug and store builds.

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No joy, I’m afraid. Moreover the support guys at Xamarin say that my code builds for them…

I’m wondering if it’s something to with earlier problems I had - I tried to install an older version of Xcode some time back which cause the machine to Kernel Panic, and while I managed to get things up and running, I was never confident that this old version had been fully removed: there was an instance where the Xamarin studio build was trying to execute a file and because it was still finding the old Xcode version, it was falling over. Deleing this file fixed the problem - I’m wondering if the same might be true for whatever does this “strip” process…

Is there anyone on here more Mac-savvy than me who knows about these sort of things who can advise?

Thanks

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Turns out that my suspicion was correct - the old version of Xcode had left a copy of the strip executable in /usr/bin, and this was getting picked up in preference to the correct version. A few permission changes and a rename later, and we’re building correctly in AppStore configuration.

Thanks @daveleaver for your thoughts on this!