Support Xcode 16 with Rosetta simulators

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Hi,

I’m using Xcode 15.2 for one of my projects to run unit tests with Rosetta simulators.
Today I tried to use Xcode 16 edge to run unit tests and found out Rosetta simulators are not being included.

Will Bitrise support Xcode 16 with Rosetta soon?

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Hi @azun,

Apple deprecated Xcode support for Rosetta 2 starting with Xcode 14.3 version.

By the way, Rosetta 2 is installed on the Bitrise Xcode 16 edge stack it simply won’t work because of the above deprecation. Is it a possibility for you to use the Xcode 14.2 stack?

Sorry to bring bad news!
Balazs

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Hi Balazs,
It seems that my writing’s confusing. I’m actually not mentioning about Rosetta mode of Xcode, but “rosetta simulators”. Please also check this for more info

Anyway, I tried at my local machine with Xcode 16 beta, while running fastlane’s scan. It appears that Apple’s changed something in Xcode so that the option run_rosetta_simulator won’t be able to find a rosetta simulator.

Here is a sample error. (it’s the same as another build on Bitrise I triggered yesterday)

xcodebuild: error: Unable to find a device matching the provided destination specifier:
		{ platform:iOS Simulator, arch:x86_64, id:440C85D7-7C56-4627-BA0E-58DD149BCA13 }

	Unsupported device specifier option.
	The device “iPhone SE (3rd generation)” does not support the following options: arch
	Please supply only supported device specifier options.

So basically, this is a problem of Xcode itself, not Bitrise.
So I’m good to close this request.
Thanks

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