iOS build error: resource fork, finder information or similar detritus not allowed.

Solar2D iOS
#1

Hi community

An old customer asked me to update an 3 year old project. I downloaded Xcode, Solar2D, provisioning profile/certificates.

Everything went really smooth, the old source code ran perfectly in simulator, until I tried to build for iOS. I got the following error.

ERROR: code signing embedded frameworks failed: /Users/user/My Source Code/Builds/AppName.app/Frameworks/FBSDKLoginKit.framework: resource fork, Finder information, or similar detritus not allowed

I then disabled Facebook plugin on iOS since I figured Facebook might have had lots of changes and I need to do something, but then another plugin complained.

ERROR: code signing embedded frameworks failed: /Users/user/My Source Code/Builds/AppName.app/Frameworks/MetalANGLE.framework: replacing existing signature

/Users/user/My Source Code/Builds/AppName.app/Frameworks/MetalANGLE.framework: resource fork, Finder information, or similar detritus not allowed

Xcode 16.2

Solar2D 2025.3718 (2025.3.7)

Searching for “detritus” only found posts from around 2016-2017.

I tried manually delete old builds. Is there other old cache folder I can delete to try fix the problem or other solutions? I have a valid distribution provisioning profile.

Any ideas what to do?

Best regards

Daniel

#2

THIS PART IS SOLVED: Still looking for solution for original problem.

Update… I now tried to clear project sandbox. Now the simulator crashes when I open my app source code.

#3

Here’s are the commands to enter in the Terminal to shunt the simulator console output to the Terminal so you can see what’s causing the crash:

  • disable Solar2d console so errors show up in terminal:
    defaults write com.coronalabs.Corona\_Simulator no-console YES
  • start from command like this (replace 3709 with whatever build you’re using):
    /Applications/Corona-3709/Corona\ Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Corona\ Simulator
  • re-enable Solar2d console when done:
    defaults delete com.coronalabs.Corona\_Simulator no-console
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#4

Thank you. The simulator works again, but I’m again stuck on the main and first error I wrote about.

#5

Case closed. Found out all my problems came from iCloud syncing the files. If I put the source code and compiled to a location without online sync, then everything works.