Missing dSYM for PDFium.framework when archiving iOS (App Store submission)

[alhudaghifari]

Missing dSYM for PDFium.framework when archiving iOS (App Store submission)

Package Information

• Package: pdfrx
• Version: 2.2.24
• Flutter: Flutter 3.35.1 • channel stable
• Dart: 3.9.0
• DevTools: 2.48.0
• Platform: iOS (Release / Archive build)
• Build Method: flutter build ipa and Xcode Archive

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Description

When archiving the app for App Store submission, Xcode produces the following warning:

The archive did not include a dSYM for the PDFium.framework with the UUIDs [XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX].
Ensure that the archive's dSYM folder includes a DWARF file for PDFium.framework with the expected UUIDs.

The warning appears to originate from PDFium.framework bundled inside pdfrx.

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Add the dependency:

dependencies:
  pdfrx: ^2.2.24

2. Build iOS release archive:

flutter build ipa

or archive directly from Xcode.

3. Validate or upload the archive to App Store Connect.

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Expected Behavior

The generated .xcarchive should include:

dSYMs/PDFium.framework.dSYM

with a matching UUID for:

Products/Applications/<AppName>.app/Frameworks/PDFium.framework/PDFium

This ensures:

• No App Store validation warning
• Proper crash symbolication (e.g., Firebase Crashlytics, App Store Connect)

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Actual Behavior

The .xcarchive does not contain a PDFium.framework.dSYM file matching the framework UUID.

As a result:

• App Store Connect shows a missing dSYM warning
• Crash symbolication for PDFium will not work properly

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Additional Notes

• Debug builds work normally.
• The issue only appears during Release archive.
• Other Flutter plugins do not produce this warning.
• Verified that the UUID from PDFium.framework does not have a matching dSYM in the archive.

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Question

Is the PDFium.framework intentionally distributed without dSYM files?

If not, could the iOS binary be rebuilt with:

DEBUG_INFORMATION_FORMAT = dwarf-with-dsym

and include the corresponding .dSYM in the distributed framework?

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Thank you 🙏

[StroeAndreX]

Have you found any solution? I’ve tried adding the line config.build_settings['DEBUG_INFORMATION_FORMAT'] = 'dwarf-with-dsym' to the Podfile, but it still didn’t work.

[thvavy]

i'm facing same issue

[jayjah]

Same Issue here!

[espresso3389]

Duplicate of #541 and #554.

There are many reasons to release only xcframework without dSYM included:

• Currently, pdfrx deeply depends on bblanchon/pdfium-binaries, and they only provides dylibs without dSYM
• In the past, pdfrx once published with my self-built pdfium static library but it cost so much on me and I gave up maintaining it...
• dSYM for PDFium getting too large
  ...