x/mobile: Unable to build xcframework with gomobile and Xcode 14

[darrarski]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.18.3 darwin/arm64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="arm64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/Users/darrarski/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/darrarski/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOEXPERIMENT=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="arm64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/Users/darrarski/.go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/darrarski/.go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/opt/homebrew/opt/go/libexec"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/opt/homebrew/opt/go/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.18.3"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/Users/darrarski/Dev/repo/go.mod"
GOWORK=""
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/bh/t75dvhh939lbvnsq6n60mgtr0000gn/T/go-build841782302=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

I tried to build xcframework for iOS using Xcode 14 (14A5228q) developer tools with the following command:

$ gomobile bind -target ios gitlab.com/elixxir/client/bindings

What did you expect to see?

I expected the command to create xcframework. It works when I switch to Xcode 13.4.1 (13F100) developer tools.

What did you see instead?

When using Xcode 14 (14A5228q) developer tools, the command fails with the following error:

$ gomobile bind -target ios gitlab.com/elixxir/client/bindings
gomobile: ios/arm64: go build -buildmode=c-archive -o /var/folders/bh/t75dvhh939lbvnsq6n60mgtr0000gn/T/gomobile-work-1445876485/bindings-ios-arm64.a ./gobind failed: exit status 2
# runtime/cgo
cgo: C compiler "2022-06-09" not found: exec: "2022-06-09": executable file not found in $PATH

[cherrymui]

cgo: C compiler "2022-06-09"

I think gomobile picks up the C compiler from running xcrun --find clang, and that command on darwin/arm64 can sometimes contains bogus logging output starting with the date and time. That probably confuses gomobile.

Could you try running that command again, maybe twice?

gomobile should probably be more resilient on that. Maybe it should only use stdout of xcrun, not stderr. cc @hyangah
@golang/ios

[changkun]

I plan to upgrade to Xcode 14 soon so that it may be possible for me to take a look.

[darrarski]

I tried to run the command several times yesterday, but the result was always the same. I'm unfamiliar with golang, but the error message "exec: 2022-06-09 not found" seemed suspicious. I thought it could be some kind of parsing issue.

I'm not sure if the problem is caused by parsing the result of xcrun --find clang, which gives the following output:

with Xcode 13.4.1 (13F100):

$ xcrun --find clang
/Applications/Xcode-13.4.1.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang

with Xcode 14 (14A5228q):

$ xcrun --find clang
/Applications/Xcode-14.0.0-Beta.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang

However, I rerun the command today, and... it works! Still, I believe there is a bug hiding somewhere, as the problem was probably caused by the given date when the command was run (2022-06-09). Thankfully today (2022-06-10) it works fine :-)

[darrarski]

I plan to upgrade to Xcode 14 soon so that it may be possible for me to take a look.

I'm afraid you'll need to go back in time to reproduce ;-)

[cherrymui]

On my mac M1 machine, it sometimes print messages like

2022-06-07 22:25:25.471 xcodebuild[8405:27734] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionSentinelHostApplications for extension Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionHosts.watchOS of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore
2022-06-07 22:25:25.471 xcodebuild[8405:27734] Requested but did not find extension point with identifier Xcode.IDEKit.ExtensionPointIdentifierToBundleIdentifier for extension Xcode.DebuggerFoundation.AppExtensionToBundleIdentifierMap.watchOS of plug-in com.apple.dt.IDEWatchSupportCore

It doesn't always print that. In my experience it is more likely to print if it is the first time to use such commands in a while. And the second and subsequent runs just behave normally, without the extra output.

Maybe it will print if you restart the machine and run that command immediately.