How do determine which path format is invalid?

Question

When I attempt to publish my Maui App and click "Publish" I get the cannot create an IOS archive because the process cannot be executed on XMA server - the "Unzip" task failed unexpectedly the given path's format is not supported.

That is all the feedback I get, nothing more. I have cleared the XMA cache on my Mac and my Desktop, nothing I can do to determine what the actual error is.

Where do I look?

Brett

Answer 1

I have the same problem but found a temporary workaround.

Use the Publish using the command line from the MAUI docs.

Open a Power Shell in your MAUI project directory (Shift + Right Click -> "Open Power Shel window here")

Replace all the curly braces in this command with your own info and paste it to the Power Shell:

dotnet publish {ProjectName}.csproj -f net8.0-ios -c Release -p:ArchiveOnBuild=true -p:RuntimeIdentifier=ios-arm64 -p:CodesignKey="{The code sign key}" -p:CodesignProvision={Provisioning Profile} -p:ServerAddress={iOS user ip address} -p:ServerUser="{iOS user name}" -p:ServerPassword={iOS user password} -p:TcpPort=58181 -p:'_DotNetRootRemoteDirectory=/Users/{iOS user folder name}/Library/Caches/Xamarin/XMA/SDKs/dotnet/'

Now run this. The full process will still fail but you will have created a signed .ipa-file on your mac.

Go to this folder to find it:

/Users/{iOS user folder name}/Library/Caches/Xamarin/mtbs/builds/{MAUI project name}/{some long app identifier string}/bin/Release/net8.0-ios/ios-arm64/publish

If you struggle with finding the Library folder. Use the "Go to folder..." in Finder.

Now you can easily drag the .ipa-file to "Transporter" to transfer it to App Store👍