Corona Hangs During Build

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#41

<Does a jig like Bruce Willis on the tower in The Last Boy Scout>

I can build successfully now and deploy to my devices!  I can build! I can build! If I build it they might come!

Ok enough of the movie references for those of you who have been following this thread (if anyone) I deleted all the provisioning profiles and revoked all certificates (even though they were all valid) and re-issued and re-deployed the profiles and its all working now.

It is interesting that Corona SDK doesn’t report a certificate or profile problem when there is something wrong it would have been helpful if it did.  Maybe it cant report a problem if the Mac OS says they are all good?

Thankyou everyone for your help especially Rob and Perry from Corona SDK staff.

Peace Out brothers and sisters, thankyou!

Peter

 

#42

Wow!  Great news but still a real mystery.  We do report certificate or profile problems at the end of the build process when we use the Apple provisioning to codesign the app.  Your hang was in a completely different place so I’m at a loss as to why what you did fixed it.  I just sent you a list of things to try on the support ticket which you can obviously ignore.

#43

It was probably my lack of experience with Macs and the provisioning process that missed a step the first 2 times and not any issue with Corona SDK, thankyou again for your help and patience.  I sent an email to you advising to close the case.

peter

#44

Glad this is over. Now a full & proper welcome to Corona SDK. Enjoy!!!

#45

Thanks ksan! Its great product and so easy to use I don’t want anyone else to find out about it :-)  I have been putting off getting into iOS programming cause I find Macs so cumbersome to use but now I can develop on Windows for both 'droid and iOS happy days! :slight_smile:

Peter

#46

Heh heh. Another Windoze convert here. I worked with Wintel for many years but thanks to the invasion set by iPhones my family got hooked on Macs and eventually I had to follow suit. They have a nasty habit of growing on you. Beware!

#47

We have  a houseful of iphones and ipads and really love the products and love iOS and are really excited about building some apps for them.  The Mac I bought last week and its only function is intended to be for deploying apps to test devices and the app store.
 

iOS devices have been a godsend for people like me with many business clients and a lot of upper management types who struggle with simple things like checking their email on a laptop now I just get them an iOS device and they are happy as and I am happy cause they stop calling me for desktop support. it does my head in sometimes trying to communicate with people who say “I clicked on the blue thing and now the red thing has come up…” who understands that speak :slight_smile:

After using the mac for a week I know I can never be as productive on it as I can a Window Box, its just impossible to move quickly around a mac environment as it is a Windows one, IMHO :slight_smile:
 

AppleTV? Fantastic product we use it all the time!

The Mac Desktop it just seems to me that Apple does not do things that Microsoft does.  You know like if your scroll mouse goes this way on a PC then Mac has to scroll the other way by default simply because Microsoft do it the other way.  You know its like Apple is deliberately not embracing new ideas on their desktop because Microsoft is doing it already so development of the Mac desktop is not moving forward,  I don’t think its changed much at all since I first used it 10 years ago :slight_smile:

Microsoft on the other hand has no shame if they see a great idea and they cant copy it they will buy it :slight_smile:
 

Enough of my blather!  There are Apps to write and miles to go before I sleep!

Onward!

Peter

 

#48

I hear you. I spent a lifetime using, supporting, developing applications for and running infrastructure related to Windows. Its a different beast thats for sure. Anyways, just saw this and thought it might be a good final thought on my off-topic tangent on your thread. Enjoy!  :slight_smile:

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#49

I haven’t seen the blue screen of death since the days of XP and it was usually due to bad hardware rather than something wrong with the software :slight_smile:

#50

And I cant quit Corona and cant restart the Mac cause Corona wont let it anyone got any suggestions on how to proceed?

#51

Pull the plug from the wall? :wink:

Never seen something like this but I think sometimes build servers might have maintenance or something for brief moments during the weekend low times. Perhaps you caught a bad moment. Suggest killing the process using Activity Monitor on your Mac, doing a full Restart and then trying again. Good luck.

#52

Thanks Ksan I will try it, I just bought the Mac to do some IOS development…I thought we didn’t have to pull the plaug on Macs :slight_smile:

#53

Stopped the task and restated the Mac and tried again still hangs during the build phase, is there a log anywhere I can look at?  I cant build for the xcode sim but the app runs fine in the Corona sim.

#54

I guess I better go re-read the docs again :slight_smile: I have tried quite a few platforms over the last couple of weeks to find one that actually works and its frustrating as all the platforms seem to fall over during the building phase even when you follow the instructions as closely as possible.

#55

Just ran a build to see if the servers are down or something. It went fine. I am afraid something is not quite right on your end. Maybe a reinstall? 

#56

OK I will try the re-install next but its brand new mac and the install seemed to work fine.

The provisioning docs talk about moving the provisioning profile to /Users/(your user)/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning Profiles/ and that’s about the only step I cant seem to do but I can see a valid provisioning profile…

#57

just checked the provisioning profiles via the terminal window and it is there…

#58

I think I am going to have to admit defeat and move along to the next platform, I have been programming PCs for 20+ years and consider myself adept at many languages including c++  I am rather sad actually as I was very excited to get into iOS and Android programming.  I have worked through all the troubleshooting suggestions in the docs including checking file names and file locations ensuring provisioning is correct and double checked and triple checked all my certificates.

I even went and bought a brand new Macmini to do the builds on for Corona and to get up to speed with the Mac OS.  The only SDK I have been able to get working is DragonFire SDK it took all of 5 minutes and I had an app running on my Iphone for testing.  Unfortunately the API is pretty primitive and you cant do some of the more advanced sockets programming.

If anyone could offer any advice or tips I would appreciate it, I know I am not the sharpest tool in the shed but I am not the dullest either!

Kindest Regards

Peter

#59

FYI I just tried building the Clock Sample App and that hangs during the build process, I cant be the only one having issues??? Can I? :slight_smile:

#60

Its soooo frustrating, no one has had this issue before?  I just DE authorised both machines I am using and it still sits there during the build just telling me its Performing Build but nothing every happens

What am I missing? Help! :slight_smile: