Xamarin Share Extension works fine in Debug, but not when released through TestFlight/AppCenter

Steven Brough 1

I've been working on a project for a few months, and it is a fairly simple app and a share extension component. For some reason the share extension has stopped working when I deliver the app through AppCenter/TestFlight.

It works exactly as intended when running in debug, both on simulator and a device.

Within the device console I'm seeing errors like:

error: Failed to load AOT module 'ShareExtName' while running in aot-only mode because a dependency cannot be found or it is out of date

I'm in a bit of a wood for the trees situation, so any help would be appreciated!

James Montemagno 351 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-01-20T23:11:49.733+00:00

What are your linker settings? Maybe try to turn it to "Link SDK only" for the extension?
Steven Brough 1 Reputation point

2021-01-20T23:16:15.87+00:00

Hi James

I’ve tried all three possibilities with that to no avail unfortunately
James Montemagno 351 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-01-20T23:27:39.21+00:00

I would try next just do a release build in Visual Studio for Mac and release that up to Test Flight. Let's take App Center out of the mix for now and focus on that.

Else if it is reproduceable with a small sample you can link it or post an issue on https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios
Steven Brough 1 Reputation point

2021-01-20T23:33:15.867+00:00

Already tried mate, I was using visual studio on windows. We were using app center and then switched to test flight to see if it was a provisioning profile/device issue. Still no joy

Then I switched to building directly on the Mac as I was seeing other oddities via the windows approach, but still nothing

My next step is to start from scratch with a couple of blank apps and if it continues to behave the same I’ll get the code up

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