Exporting .ipa for Enterprise

corymsmith · February 24, 2017, 5:30pm

I have a client that needs an .ipa file so that they can sign it internally with their enterprise certificate. Do you know if I can send them the .ipa signed with my AdHoc profile / cert and then they can re-sign it? Or is there a way to get the Xcode Archive step to produce an unsigned .ipa file

corymsmith · February 24, 2017, 5:33pm

I know theres a “enterprise” export method but I don’t have the enterprise certs or profiles so I don’t think thats the correct option.

viktorbenei · February 24, 2017, 5:36pm

Hi @corymsmith,

Thanks for asking this here!

It’s possible, e.g. with our Re-sign IPA (you can run this on any Mac using the Bitrise CLI), or any other resigner tool (I believe there are a few available, and most likely scripts too, but we usually use our step ;)).

Another possibility is to send them the Xcode archive file, which they can open and export a signed ipa from.
For that you just have to enable the Export the generated archive? option of the Xcode Archive step

github.com

bitrise-steplib/steps-xcode-archive/blob/master/step.yml#L213


      
              - "off"
              - api-key
              - apple-id
              is_required: true
          
          - register_test_devices: "no"
            opts:
              category: Automatic code signing
              title: Register test devices on the Apple Developer Portal
              summary: If this input is set, the Step will register the known test devices on Bitrise from team members with the Apple Developer Portal.
              description: |-
                If this input is set, the Step will register the known test devices on Bitrise from team members with the Apple Developer Portal.
          
                Note that setting this to yes may cause devices to be registered against your limited quantity of test devices in the Apple Developer Portal, which can only be removed once annually during your renewal window.
              is_required: true
              value_options:
              - "yes"
              - "no"
          
          - test_device_list_path:
            opts:

and make sure that you have the Deploy to Bitrise.io step after the Xcode Archive step. The archive file will be attached to the build by the deploy step and you’ll be able to download it from there.

There might be other solutions too, these are probably the easiest ones.

If you have any questions just let us know!

Happy Building!

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Exporting .ipa for Enterprise

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