Weird mac .app build (was fine in December)

[artwaw]

I noticed something odd in a way resulting .app is being build. Can't exactly say when did this happened since I don't codesign too often...

So, my last deployment was in December and it went as usual: macdeployqt, codesign app, create dmg, codesign dmg, send it over.
Yesterday I tried to do same but codesign failed repeatedly with peculiar message about root being not sealed in .app file.
I took a peek inside. Somehow, apart from Content folder that I would expect to be there, there was whole .app file again, so I had:
In myprogram.app:

• Content
• myprogram.app

Folder myprogram.app had the expected content. In order to codesign and ship I had to manually remove myprogram.app and its subfolders from myprogram.app root.

Any ideas what had happened here? This is reproducible issue.

[SGaist]

Hi,

Did you change anything in between ?
Xcode version ?
Qt Creator ?
Project parameters ?
Build output configuration ?

[artwaw]

@SGaist usual update of QtCreator (I tend to keep it up to date despite introducing new bugs in clang-lazy) and xcode. Nothing else changed, I had a brief update to Qt6 but then rolled back to 5.15.2.
Precisely:

• it worked in the first days of December on 5.15.2
• it worked in the first days of December on 6
• then fast forward to yesterday when I discovered the issue.

In the meantime there was update of QtCreator and xcode.

[SGaist]

Anything strange in the project setting ?
Do you have the same issue if you build your project on the command line ?

[artwaw]

@SGaist No, nothing strange. It is really simple (and I never touch default settings set by the installer). Pro file:

QT       += core gui svg printsupport

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

CONFIG += c++17
CONFIG += sdk_no_version_check

SOURCES += \
    aboutdialog.cpp \
    main.cpp \
    prefsdialog.cpp \
    qgraphicsmovieitem.cpp \
    viewer.cpp

HEADERS += \
    aboutdialog.h \
    prefsdialog.h \
    qgraphicsmovieitem.h \
    viewer.h

FORMS += \
    aboutdialog.ui \
    prefsdialog.ui \
    viewer.ui

TRANSLATIONS += \
    TNImageViewer_en_GB.ts \
    TNImageViewer_pl_PL.ts

RESOURCES += \
    res.qrc

DISTFILES += \
    TNImageViewer_en_GB.qm \
    TNImageViewer_pl_PL.qm

macx: {
QTPLUGIN += libcocoa\
        libcocoaprintersupport\
        libqmacstyle

ICON = img/iconTNIV.icns

QMAKE_TARGET_BUNDLE_PREFIX = my.domain.here
QMAKE_BUNDLE = TNImageViewer
}

win32: {
QTPLUGIN += qwindows\
        windowsprintersupport

RC_ICONS += img/TNImageViewer.ico
}

Truth to tell I never build any project using command line. Creator always worked...

[artwaw]

After the advice from @SGaist I started to experiment a bit with settings of the build steps: problem disappeared after I did these three steps one by one (after each I checked if the problem is gone - it disappeared after the last step:

• turning off QML debugging and profiling switch (default was "leave default", effective call showed CONFIG+=qml_debug now it is CONFIG-=)
• turning off QtQuick compiler (default was "leave default, effective call showed CONFIG+=qtquickcompiler now it is CONFIG-=)
• deleting shadow build folders (I do it routinely once a week or so anyway).

Now the problem is gone, I am marking the topic as "solved".