Share iOS system framework's symbol files. Useful for symbolicating iOS crash report.
Share iOS system symbol files copied from iOS DeviceSupport
folder. Useful for symbolicating iOS crash reports.
The download address is in collected-symbol-files.md.
When I get new symbol file, i will add it into the google drive sharing folder, and update the collected-symbol-files.md. You can follow this repository to get the latest update.
It’s for symbolicating those system frameworks in your iOS crash report.
When you get a crash report like this:
Thread 0 name: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x000000018b816f30 0x18b7fc000 + 110384 (objc_msgSend + 16)
1 UIKit 0x0000000192e0a79c 0x192c05000 + 2119580 (<redacted> + 72)
2 UIKit 0x0000000192c4db48 0x192c05000 + 297800 (<redacted> + 312)
3 UIKit 0x0000000192c4d988 0x192c05000 + 297352 (<redacted> + 160)
4 QuartzCore 0x00000001900d6404 0x18ffc5000 + 1119236 (<redacted> + 260)
5 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000018bc551c0 0x18bc54000 + 4544 (<redacted> + 16)
6 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000018bc59d6c 0x18bc54000 + 23916 (_dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 1000)
7 CoreFoundation 0x000000018cd79f2c 0x18cc9d000 + 905004 (<redacted> + 12)
8 CoreFoundation 0x000000018cd77b18 0x18cc9d000 + 895768 (<redacted> + 1660)
9 CoreFoundation 0x000000018cca6048 0x18cc9d000 + 36936 (CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 444)
10 GraphicsServices 0x000000018e729198 0x18e71d000 + 49560 (GSEventRunModal + 180)
11 UIKit 0x0000000192c80628 0x192c05000 + 505384 (<redacted> + 684)
12 UIKit 0x0000000192c7b360 0x192c05000 + 484192 (UIApplicationMain + 208)
13 MyApp 0x0000000100016e54 0x100004000 + 77396 (_mh_execute_header + 77396)
14 libdyld.dylib 0x000000018bc885b8 0x18bc84000 + 17848 (<redacted> + 4)
The callstack didn’t catch your app’s code, it only has code from system frameworks. So you need to symbolicate these system code.
Here is the symbolicated report, those<redacted>
were changed into specific method names:
Thread 0 name: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x000000018b816f30 objc_msgSend + 16
1 UIKit 0x0000000192e0a79c -[UISearchDisplayController _sendDelegateDidBeginDidEndSearch] + 72
2 UIKit 0x0000000192c4db48 -[UIViewAnimationState sendDelegateAnimationDidStop:finished:] + 312
3 UIKit 0x0000000192c4d988 -[UIViewAnimationState animationDidStop:finished:] + 160
4 QuartzCore 0x00000001900d6404 CA::Layer::run_animation_callbacks(void*) + 260
5 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000018bc551c0 _dispatch_client_callout + 16
6 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000018bc59d6c _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 1000
7 CoreFoundation 0x000000018cd79f2c __CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE__ + 12
8 CoreFoundation 0x000000018cd77b18 __CFRunLoopRun + 1660
9 CoreFoundation 0x000000018cca6048 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 444
10 GraphicsServices 0x000000018e729198 GSEventRunModal + 180
11 UIKit 0x0000000192c80628 -[UIApplication _run] + 684
12 UIKit 0x0000000192c7b360 UIApplicationMain + 208
13 MyApp 0x0000000100016e54 main (main.m:15)
14 libdyld.dylib 0x000000018bc885b8 start + 4
We can make out that the problem was caused by UISearchDisplayController
‘sdelegate
. It’sassign
. This crash happened when tap search bar while poping the viewController.
You may find out that you can’t always symbolicate those system code. There’re several problems:
tbd
files after Xcode7, this trick doesn’t work any more. Read this for more details: Xcode software image for user iOS in order to symbolicate iOS calls, Missing iOS symbols at “~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport”. (Update: Actually, since Xcode 6, there is no real device SDK. So you can only get SDKs before iOS 7 from Xcode.)When you first connect a new iOS device to Xcode, Xcode will show a loading message: Processing symbol files
(after Xcode 9, it’s Preparing debugger support for Device
). It’s copying system symbol files from device to your Mac’s path: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport
.
That means you need a corresponding device if you want to symbolicate a crash report. There are 132 versions from 7.0 (11A465)
to 10.2.1 (14D27)
(most OS version contains three different type:arm64
,armv7s
,armv7
. Aarm64
device contains botharm64
andarmv7s
). That’s obviously very difficult to collect them all.
That’s the meaning of this repository, to share these system symbols.
update: Since iOS 10, iOS firmware are not encrypted, so we can get symbols from firmware now.
When you need to symbolicate a crash report, check the Code Type
and OS Version
section. Such as:Code Type: ARM-64
OS Version: iOS 10.2 (14C82)
. That means you need arm64
version symbols of 10.2 (14C82)
system.
Find the package in my sharing folder and extract it to ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport
. (Check the file’s name and path, it should be~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport/10.2 (14C82)/Symbols
).
Use Xcode’ssymbolicatecrash
tool to symbolicate your crash report. This tool will search system symbols in theiOS DeviceSupport
path automatically. Read this to learn how to usesymbolicatecrash
: Symbolicating an iOS Crash Report.
If the symbols you need is not in the list, you can get from firmware by yourself.
We can almost get all systems’ symbols from firmwares now. And after iOS 10, firmwares are not encrypted any more. You can also get symbols of beta firmwares.
How to extract symbols from firmware:
6
Root Filesystem
section in the corresponding firmware page)dmg
tool in tools:./dmg extract encrypted.dmg decrypted.dmg -k <firmware_key>
. Then you get the decrypted.dmg
, double click to load the imageSystem/Library/Caches/com.apple.dyld/
, you can get dyld_shared_cache_arm64
, dyld_shared_cache_armv7s
,dyld_shared_cache_armv7
, they are the compressed system frameworksdyld_shared_cache_armxxx
with dsc_extractor
tool in Apple’s dyld project. I put it in tools:./dsc_extractor ./dyld_shared_cache_armxxx ./output
dyld_shared_cache_arm64
, dyld_shared_cache_armv7s
,dyld_shared_cache_armv7
all. Before Xcode 11, dsc_extractor
will merge different architectures into same files when extracting to a same directorydsc_extractor
won’t merge different architectures files. We need to merge symbols with lipo
command. Try merge_symbols.sh : sh merge_symbols.sh <path_to_extracted_arm64e_symbols> <path_to_extracted_arm64_symbols>
13.3.1 (17D50) arm64e
for arm64e, and 13.3.1 (17D50)
for arm64.12.0 (16A5288q)/Symbols/
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