iOS standalone - what to do about code signing failures?

[Dave Kilroy2]

Hi all

OK I can now sign code and build apps for iOS!

I'm not 100% sure how I did it, but there were two critical stages: the
first was when I realised that the rogue extra development certificate MUST
be hiding somewhere on my MacBook Pro (I had previously been convinced it
was hiding somewhere in my account on the Provisioning Portal). 

Then, after several hours of fruitless looking today, when I was back in
Keychain Access for the umpteenth time I removed the 'login' keychain from
view (by accident I think) and had a look in the 'system' keychain - and in
there was the naughty developer certificate waiting for me (without a public
or private key). For some reason it didn't show up if I was looking in the
'system' keychain whilst the 'login' keychain was in the left-hand panel of
Keychain Access, but once the 'login' keychain was gone the certificate
showed up!

So I deleted the naughty certificate, switched back to XCode and removed all
provisioning profiles, certificates etc, revoked provisioning profiles and
certificates on the Provisioning Portal and rebooted. When I reopened XCode
I was planning to hit the 'refresh' button and let XCode get all new
profiles and certificates for me - but when I saw the blank login screen
realised that I would need my 'login' keychain back again - so I went back
to Keychain Access and imported the 'login' keychain once again, went back
to XCode and hit the 'Refresh' button - after a few seconds it created new
profiles and certificates for me with no sign of extra developer
certificates!

I then tested my XCode 'Hello World' app and that built OK and installed on
my iPad - I then opened LiveCode and built and installed a LiveCode app -
and everything worked perfectly Woohoo!!!

So one of the main things I learnt today is that the keychains in Keychain
Access are actually separate entities and 'a bit tricky' 

I'm pretty sure that I included a lot of unnecessary steps in my description
above - and I look forward to hearing from others on better ways of handling
keychains in Keychain Access and better ways of achieving what I did by
accident :)

Kind regards

Dave

PS: the Apple Worldwide Developer Center staff I dealt with were all very
nice and intelligent people - but they were of no help to me at all.



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