[iOS] Cannot publish MAUI app to Apple App Store

[petermauger]

Description

IPA app packages can be created with dotnet 7.0.100 command line build tools and uploaded to the Apple AppStore. Once a package has been uploaded it undergoes processing. An email is then sent to the Apple Developer team stating:

"ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'APPNAME.app/Frameworks/FirebaseCore.framework/FirebaseCore' contains bitcode."

for every nuget package I include in my project. This same problem occurred with the dotnet 6.0.x command line build tools however you could pass the parameter '-p:EnableAssemblyILStripping=true' to 'dotnet publish ...' and it would remove the bitcode (builds took around 30 minutes). It appears this property is not undertaking the same tasks in dotnet 7 and this causes an inability to publish IPAs to the App Store (kinda important).

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a new MAUI app targeting iOS (standard template is fine)
2. Configure for upload to App Store (valid app ID, certificate, provisioning profile, etc)
3. run dotnet publish -f:netX.0-ios -c:Release -p:EnableAssemblyILStripping=true where X is any version supporting MAUI but using command line build tools for dotnet 7
4. Upload ipa file to App Store via Transporter app (on mac)
5. Note that app is successfully processed and can be made available to testers via TestFlight (for example)
6. Add a nuget package to the MAUI project - Plugin.Firebase is one example but there are others
7. run dotnet publish -f:netX.0-ios -c:Release -p:EnableAssemblyILStripping=true again
8. Upload new ipa file to App Store via Transporter app (on mac)
9. Receive email from 'App Store Connect' stating that the package contains bitcode

Link to public reproduction project repository

Standard project can be spun up quickly

Version with bug

7.0 (current)

Last version that worked well

6.0.400

Affected platforms

iOS

Affected platform versions

iOS All

Did you find any workaround?

Have tried a number of 'possibly' affecting properties in MSBuild / csproj file but none have the desired effect of stripping out bitcode from attached frameworks.

Relevant log output

Only fails after 'successful' upload to Apple App Store. Response from App Store Connect:
ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/AppAuth.framework/AppAuth' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FBAEMKit.framework/FBAEMKit' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FBLPromises.framework/FBLPromises' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FBSDKCoreKit.framework/FBSDKCoreKit' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FBSDKCoreKit_Basics.framework/FBSDKCoreKit_Basics' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FBSDKGamingServicesKit.framework/FBSDKGamingServicesKit' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FBSDKLoginKit.framework/FBSDKLoginKit' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FBSDKShareKit.framework/FBSDKShareKit' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FacebookGamingServices.framework/FacebookGamingServices' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FirebaseABTesting.framework/FirebaseABTesting' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FirebaseAuth.framework/FirebaseAuth' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FirebaseCore.framework/FirebaseCore' contains bitcode.

ITMS-90482: Invalid Executable - The executable 'AppName.app/Frameworks/FirebaseCoreDiagnostics.framework/FirebaseCoreDiagnostics' contains bitcode.

etc, etc

[Redth]

I think this might be a duplicate of #10989

@petermauger do you have the latest versions of the binding nuget packages that were recently released?

/cc @SotoiGhost

[ghost]

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[ghost]

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[petermauger]

Yep, that's an exact dupe of this issue. Annoyingly didn't find it when I searched the error message :(. I'm going to try out some of the suggestions in the linked issue. I'm using latest packages but am including the Firebase frameworks via Plugin.Firebase package (which isn't mentioned in the issue so there may be another way to incorporate the framework).