Command CodeSign failed with nonzero exit code

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey I tried downloading the version you used but it won't work because it is too old, so I tried the previous version to the one I was using and it doesn't work... I think in your video you said the gpl mode makes it so you don't need to sign in, I can't find the gpl mode option and I can't find the sign in option either... Could it be because of that ?

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay said in Command CodeSign failed with nonzero exit code:

makes it so you don't need to sign in

That's the sign in within Projucer, it is unrelated to codesigning.

Do you see this in the top right corner of Projucer?

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey Yeah, I just saw this, gpl is enabled. I tried deleting the hise directory and its contents and deleting xcode and projucer and starting the process from 0 again but downloading the previous version of xcode and it came back with this error log :

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Build target HISE Standalone - App of project HISE Standalone with configuration Debug

CodeSign /Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/Builds/MacOSX/build/Debug/HISE\ Debug.app (in target 'HISE Standalone - App' from project 'HISE Standalone')
cd /Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/Builds/MacOSX

Signing Identity:     "Sign to Run Locally"

/usr/bin/codesign --force --sign - --entitlements /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Build/Intermediates.noindex/HISE\ Standalone.build/Debug/HISE\ Standalone\ -\ App.build/HISE\ Debug.app.xcent --timestamp\=none --generate-entitlement-der /Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/Builds/MacOSX/build/Debug/HISE\ Debug.app

/Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/Builds/MacOSX/build/Debug/HISE Debug.app: resource fork, Finder information, or similar detritus not allowed
Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code

Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code

Build failed 03/04/2026, 16:03 49.6 seconds

Same error message but idk if something is different now in the log I copied...

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay said in Command CodeSign failed with nonzero exit code:

Yeah, I found that

Good, that means GPL mode is already enabled.

@Jimi_Jay said in Command CodeSign failed with nonzero exit code:

Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code

There shouldn't be any codesigning steps in the debug configuration. Are you sure you're building the debug and not the CI?

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey I think so, I took a screenshot.

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay It looks correct to me. Did you download the HISE source code through git?

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey Yeah I used your command :
cd ~/Documents/
git clone --branch develop --recurse-submodules https://github.com/christophhart/HISE.git
cd HISE
git pull

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay It looks like you've done everything correctly. It's possible there is a bug in a recent commit of HISE.

You could try an earlier commit of HISE to see if it works. Run these two commands in the terminal after cding into the HISE directory

git reset --hard

git checkout 3957028845b3da93620aa781857dcbf8e9c294a5

Then clean the build folder and try again.

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey It came up with an error :
HISE % git checkout 3957028845b3da93620aa781857dcbf8e9c294a5
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
tools/api generator/ApiExtractor.exe
tools/api generator/BinaryBuilder.exe
tools/api generator/batchCreate.bat
tools/api generator/xml.doxyfile
Please move or remove them before you switch branches.
Aborting

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay Delete the files it mentioned. Then run the git checkout command again.

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey I think this means the command worked but I'll still send it here just in case :

HISE % git checkout 3957028845b3da93620aa781857dcbf8e9c294a5
warning: unable to rmdir 'tools/api generator': Directory not empty
warning: unable to rmdir 'tools/hise_lsp_server': Directory not empty
M JUCE
M tools/mcp_server
Note: switching to '3957028845b3da93620aa781857dcbf8e9c294a5'.

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by switching back to a branch.

If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -c with the switch command. Example:

git switch -c

Or undo this operation with:

git switch -

Turn off this advice by setting config variable advice.detachedHead to false

HEAD is now at 395702884 Merge branch 'develop' of https://github.com/christophhart/HISE into develop

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey I cleaned the build folder on xcode and tried again and this time I got a different error :

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Build target HISE Standalone - App of project HISE Standalone with configuration Debug

CompileC /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Build/Intermediates.noindex/HISE\ Standalone.build/Debug/HISE\ Standalone\ -\ App.build/Objects-normal/arm64/include_hi_backend_02.o /Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/JuceLibraryCode/include_hi_backend_02.cpp normal arm64 c++ com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler (in target 'HISE Standalone - App' from project 'HISE Standalone')
cd /Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/Builds/MacOSX

Using response file: /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Build/Intermediates.noindex/HISE Standalone.build/Debug/HISE Standalone - App.build/Objects-normal/arm64/82b82416624d2658e5098eb0a28c15c5-common-args.resp

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang -x c++ -ivfsstatcache /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/SDKStatCaches.noindex/macosx26.2-25C58-00fa09913b459cbbc988d1f6730289ae.sdkstatcache -fmessage-length\=0 -fdiagnostics-show-note-include-stack -fmacro-backtrace-limit\=0 -fno-color-diagnostics -Wno-trigraphs -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-missing-prototypes -Wunreachable-code -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-overloaded-virtual -Wno-exit-time-destructors -Wno-missing-braces -Wparentheses -Wswitch -Wunused-function -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unused-parameter -Wunused-variable -Wunused-value -Wempty-body -Wuninitialized -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-shadow -Wno-four-char-constants -Wno-conversion -Wconstant-conversion -Wint-conversion -Wbool-conversion -Wenum-conversion -Wno-float-conversion -Wnon-literal-null-conversion -Wobjc-literal-conversion -Wshorten-64-to-32 -Wno-newline-eof -Wno-c++11-extensions -Wno-implicit-fallthrough -fstrict-aliasing -Wdeprecated-declarations -Winvalid-offsetof -Wno-sign-conversion -Winfinite-recursion -Wmove -Wcomma -Wblock-capture-autoreleasing -Wstrict-prototypes -Wrange-loop-analysis -Wno-semicolon-before-method-body -index-store-path /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Index.noindex/DataStore -Wreorder -Wno-reorder -Wno-inconsistent-missing-override -Wno-switch @/Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Build/Intermediates.noindex/HISE\ Standalone.build/Debug/HISE\ Standalone\ -\ App.build/Objects-normal/arm64/82b82416624d2658e5098eb0a28c15c5-common-args.resp -MMD -MT dependencies -MF /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Build/Intermediates.noindex/HISE\ Standalone.build/Debug/HISE\ Standalone\ -\ App.build/Objects-normal/arm64/include_hi_backend_02.d --serialize-diagnostics /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Build/Intermediates.noindex/HISE\ Standalone.build/Debug/HISE\ Standalone\ -\ App.build/Objects-normal/arm64/include_hi_backend_02.dia -c /Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/JuceLibraryCode/include_hi_backend_02.cpp -o /Users/jay/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/HISE_Standalone-cnktsjmvoartasbasfwshrpxxybp/Build/Intermediates.noindex/HISE\ Standalone.build/Debug/HISE\ Standalone\ -\ App.build/Objects-normal/arm64/include_hi_backend_02.o -index-unit-output-path /HISE\ Standalone.build/Debug/HISE\ Standalone\ -\ App.build/Objects-normal/arm64/include_hi_backend_02.o

/Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/JuceLibraryCode/include_hi_backend_02.cpp:9:10: fatal error: 'hi_backend/hi_backend_02.cpp' file not found
9 | #include <hi_backend/hi_backend_02.cpp>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

/Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/JuceLibraryCode/include_hi_backend_02.cpp:9:10: 'hi_backend/hi_backend_02.cpp' file not found

Build failed 03/04/2026, 16:34 26.7 seconds

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay Hmm at this stage I'd start trying different commits until I found one that builds. But that's not the easiest thing if you're not familiar working with git. It would be good if someone else chimed in with a working ARM macOS setup and could give some pointers.

You also might want to try the new setup tool: https://setup.hise.dev/

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey Does this setup tool work ? Because I already downloaded hise last year with a different macbook and not with git but it then wouldn't let me export the projects because it didn't find projucer even though I downloaded it to where they said it needed to be... I'll try anyway but yeah. It's weird that the versions of hise that are released on github don't work properly...

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay I haven't tried it but other people have said it works. It basically gives you a script to run that does all of the steps you've been doing manually. It's unrelated to the prebuilt version of HISE you've downloaded in the past.

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey I followed all the instructions on the hise setup wizard and it failed aswell :

The following build commands failed:
CodeSign /Users/jay/Documents/HISE/projects/standalone/Builds/MacOSX/build/Release/HISE.app (in target 'HISE Standalone - App' from project 'HISE Standalone')
(1 failure)
[ERROR] HISE compilation failed

This is very frustrating that I can't seem to get anything to work properly...

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey Is there something I can do to prevent the signing of the app ? It seems to be the problem every way I try to download hise...

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay Have you tried signing out of xcode?

[Jimi_Jay]

@David-Healey I just tried and it didn't work either. I'll try again using git now that I've signed out but I don't think it will work as I think I hadn't signed in the first time I tried and it didn't work, I only signed in afterwards to see if that changed something.

[David Healey]

@Jimi_Jay Have a poke around in xcode's settings and see if there is anything codesigning related stuff.