iPhone codesign Missing Resources - iphone

I'm trying to get my ad hoc build distributed but have started experiencing problems. It used to work up until around a week ago, but now ITunes gives an 0x8008017 error when I try to Sync.
I've narrowed it down by using the iPhone Configuration Utility and then discovering the error seems to be coming from a failed code sign. I've ran codesign -vvvv myApp.app and the outup lists a load of missing resources from my Help documents (from my Apps Resource folder). each missing resource begins ._ so for my index page:
01 - Index.html
the codesign is also expecting: ._01 - Index.html
It also has the existing file listed (as it should) but fails because all ._files are not included in the app.
I've looked through my projects directory and can't find any files beginning with ._ so am not sure where the codesigner is getting these filenames from, but they are included every build, after a clean or an Xcode restart.
All the resources that are causing problems are all recently updated files that I copied over the old resources at the beginning of the week; might this be something to do with it?
Any help appreciated

Make sure you do one of these:
copy those files with an Xcode Copy Files phase, which should Do The Right Thing by default, or
exclude resource forks and ._* files if you copy through a script, or
make sure you build on HFS volumes (where ._* files are not generated for resource forks).
Sounds like your partition type is generating resource-fork files which are also being signed as separate files in the bundle, rather than as part of the original files (which is bad); and then, they're also not getting copied (if you use Finder zipping, they'll be removed and set aside in a different portion of the Zip file, IIRC), again bad. Avoid having them in the bundle, so they don't get signed and you don't have to wade through this mess :)

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Xcode: Warning: Multiple build commands for output file AND error: unable to open executable ''

I've been reading countless other posts and trying numerous fixes, but nothing has worked for my problem. I'll preface this by saying that I haven't used Xcode on this Macbook in some 2-3 months. This is the only project (out of the 4 or so I've tried) that has this problem. The first thing I did after opening Xcode was I changed the name of the project as well as a .h and .m file. I did all of this through Xcode, not Finder.
Nothing is appearing in the Navigator in red text which would indicate that it can't be found. Here is what I've already tried (many times).
Close/Open Xcode.
Clean both the project and build folder.
Delete Derived Data folder.
Ran a Disk Utility to repair permissions.
Restarted the computer.
Tried different combinations of Code Signing.
Delete App from device.
Searched through project for any duplicate file names.
Here is the warning verbatim:
Warning: Multiple build commands for output file /Users/jinser/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Landmarks-bgnzcomxftpffiezmwocaqdydrlj/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Landmarks.app/Landmarks
and here is the error:
GenerateDSYMFile /Users/jinser/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Landmarks-bgnzcomxftpffiezmwocaqdydrlj/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Landmarks.app.dSYM /Users/jinser/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Landmarks-bgnzcomxftpffiezmwocaqdydrlj/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Landmarks.app/Landmarks
cd "/Users/jinser/Desktop/Kevin/Cocos2D Projects/ARSpaceships"
setenv PATH "/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
/Developer/usr/bin/dsymutil /Users/jinser/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Landmarks-bgnzcomxftpffiezmwocaqdydrlj/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Landmarks.app/Landmarks -o /Users/jinser/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Landmarks-bgnzcomxftpffiezmwocaqdydrlj/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/Landmarks.app.dSYM
error: unable to open executable ''
This is Xcode 4.2 on Mac 10.6.8. Please, any advice would be appreciated. I am losing my mind.
Thanks.
So to whoever runs into this problem and all of the other solutions out there do not work for you, make sure you don't have a project folder that shares the same name as the project. For instance, my project is called Landmarks and I had a folder inside the resources also called Landmarks. Once I renamed the folder, all was well.
Not my answer, but LargeGlasses provided the real answer (for me) in a comment, I've formulated it as an answer in its own right because I can't Up Vote the comment.
any two files within your project that have the same name will cause this warning.
In my case, I had an icon with the same name in different subfolders, one was used by the App and the other was part of my help resource located in a different folder. The solution is to just rename one of the two.
All credit and my thanks for this answer to LargeGlasses.

XCode archive not including files in referenced folder

I'm having a hard time producing an Archive for my project. I can run fine on my device and in the simulator. I have several resources that I am referencing in a folder that I added as a reference. The folder has been added to my bundle resources and before I copy bundle resources I'm executing a script to touch the folder.
However when the archive is produced, it's practically empty (2 KB) when it should be around 14-16 MB. There are no errors and the Archive validates fine. It error on trying to distribute, but beyond that I'm seeing no issues. It's like it isn't actually packaging anything up.
Thanks!
Well I figured it out. I had a file in my referenced folder named:
._app.properties
And another named:
._.DS_Store
Apparently any file in your referenced resources with a name starting with ._ or _ will cause an issue.

Cannot include boost libraries in Ogre iPhone SDK version

I installed the Ogre3D iPhone SDK and tried to compile the sample project in XCode4. I ran into "lexical or preprocessor issue" which many people have been experiencing in XCode4. In my case, XCode was not able to fine "OgreCamera.h".
I managed to solve this problem by creating an "Indexing" group folder in my project and dragging the header files into it as suggested in this thread:
Compile, Build or Archive problems with Xcode 4 (and dependencies)
However, I ran into the same issue again in a different form. There are no more errors about "OgreCamera.h", but now I'm getting "'boost/thread/tss.hpp' file not found". I've dragged the boost folder and the individual boost header files into the Indexing group, to no effect.
All my include paths are configured correctly, XCode should be able to find these files based on my build settings.
I don't know what to do. I've searched for solutions to this and failed to find any. My best guess is that the contents of the Indexing group need to be a flat hierarchy with no sub folders, but Ogre references the boost headers files using a file path: "boost/thread/tss.hpp", and this causes problems for some reason. But I don't know how to go about fixing it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you.
I had the same problem. I was copying boost into the root of the OgreSDK and then adding the following to my header search paths
$(SRCROOT)/boost
You'll notice the file being included is "boost/thread/tss.hpp". So using the above header search path it would be looking for $(SRCROOT)/boost/boost/thread/tss.hpp.
Assuming you have $SRCROOT/include in your header search paths - the solution is just to move the boost folder to your include directory.
PS... if you don't have a boost folder you'll need to download boost and copy it in there.

Why can't I just send my zipped Xcode project folder to a friend, and it works?

I always use one folder on my filesystem for an Xcode project. It contains all project files. When I zip it and send it to a friend, she can't just ipen the xcodeproj file. It opens, but all paths are broken and build fails because all the classes don't find the #include'd files. But when I download i.e. some example projects from apple, these work perfectly. What am I doing wrong?
UPDATE:
I'm doing it like this:
1) I create a project and specify an directory on my desktop
2) In that directory I create an "images" directory and add images to it
3) I pull this images directory out and drag it into the Resources Groups&Files. Xcode asks if I want to copy it to destination folder, I click no. Because it's already there. All other things are set to default.
4) all other things are just created within xcode, and xcode just puts all classes in the Classes directory of my project.
5) when I want to add images, I first put them in the directory of the project, and from there drag them into the Images group in xcode. That's to make sure xcode doesn't mess them up with everything else. Otherwise it would just copy them to the root of my project directory rather than inside the Images directory, which doesn't make sense. In fact, the whole Groups&Files filesystem doesn't make sense at all, it's one big mess. Apple's biggest mistake in Xcode so far. That's why I have to do such stupid things.
We don't really know exactly what you're doing so it's hard to see what you're doing wrong.
Perhaps inspect the xcode project files directly, see if you have hardcoded paths. That's a sure fire problem. Make sure you copy resources into the project instead of referencing them externally, etc.
I expect that you have "search path" build setting set to an absolute path on your machine, rather than a path relative to the project. Best way to tell is to post a portion of the build transcript from the failed build and look at the -I directives. If those paths don't exist on your friend's machine, then they should be changed from absolute paths to paths that start with ${SRCROOT}.
Are you just trying to build on the second machine or are you trying to deploy to a device on the second machine? If you are trying to deploy to a device (iPhone or iPod Touch) then it probably has something to do with Code Signing and Certificates.

Can Xcode include application resource files that are generated during the build process?

I have a bunch of content files for my iPhone app that I generate via shell script. It takes way too long to be a part of the Xcode build process, so I run it periodically.
I don't want to have to continually add these files to my Xcode project in order to get them included my app resources folder. Is there a way to get Xcode to copy the contents of a folder into the app resources at build time? (It'd be a bonus if I could specify other locations, such as the approot documents folder.)
I tried adding a new 'Copy Files Build Phase' to my target, but that didn't seem to work. This seems like a common problem, but I couldn't find anything about it here.
-- Edit (What I did)
Per Jasarien and cdespinosa's suggestions, I did the following in a build script. I decided not to copy to the destination, because that would only work when using the simulator, I don't think that'll work when deploying to a device.
cp -rf "$PROJECT_DIR/mystuff" "$CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR/$CONTENTS_FOLDER_PATH/"
-- Edit 2
This doesn't appear to get files onto my iPhone. Any ideas?
You can setup a Run Script build phase in your app's target. Write the script so that it copies the resources into the app bundle.
This is the path i use for output:
${CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR}/${UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH}
Just copy your files in that directory, it's the bundle (simulator or device).
You can also take a look at my answer here : how to set up a Xcode build rule with a variable output file list?