build upload fails on XCode Cloud with .xarchive path

[chdsbd]

CLI Version

2.58.0

Operating System and Architecture

• macOS (arm64)
• macOS (x86_64)
• Linux (i686)
• Linux (x86_64)
• Linux (armv7)
• Linux (aarch64)
• Windows (i686)
• Windows (x86_64)

Operating System Version

macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 (25A362)

Link to reproduction repository

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CLI Command

sentry-cli build upload $CI_ARCHIVE_PATH --build-configuration Release

Exact Reproduction Steps

In my Xcode Cloud ci_scripts/ci_post_xcodebuild.sh file, I try to upload my app like the following:

sentry-cli build upload $CI_ARCHIVE_PATH --build-configuration Release

The CI_ARCHIVE_PATH variable is provided by Xcode Cloud and evaluates to Volumes/workspace/build.xcarchive

https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/apple/guides/ios/size-analysis/

Expected Results

I expect the .xarchive to upload

Actual Results

The command errors:

error: File is not a recognized supported build format (APK, or AAB): /Volumes/workspace/build.xcarchive

Logs

  DEBUG   2025-11-06 19:36:42.474910 -08:00 Starting upload for 1 paths
  DEBUG   2025-11-06 19:36:42.474931 -08:00 Processing artifact at path: /Volumes/workspace/build.xcarchive
  DEBUG   2025-11-06 19:36:42.474994 -08:00 Loaded file with 0 bytes
  DEBUG   2025-11-06 19:36:42.475006 -08:00 Validating build format for: /Volumes/workspace/build.xcarchive
  DEBUG   2025-11-06 19:36:42.475016 -08:00 File format validation failed
error: File is not a recognized supported build format (APK, or AAB): /Volumes/workspace/build.xcarchive

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CLI-217

[runningcode]

Thanks for reporting this.
Two questions to help us debug:

How did you install sentry-cli?
Do you know if you installed the x86-64 or the arm64 version?

[chdsbd]

@runningcode I used this script to install sentry-cli

curl -sL https://sentry.io/get-cli/ | bash

It looks like the x86 version was installed:

DEBUG   2025-11-06 19:36:38.411011 -08:00 sentry-cli version: 2.58.0, platform: "darwin", architecture: "x86_64"

I think Xcode Cloud uses ARM though, so I'm not sure how this works. Maybe Rosetta 2 is used here?

[szokeasaurusrex]

@chdsbd Only the ARM binary supports Xarchive uploads, so if you are somehow using the x86_64 binary (e.g. through Rosetta), this would explain why the command fails.

Looking at the get-cli script's code, it appears we should be fetching the universal binary on macOS. I would assume that the ARM-version should be getting run on an ARM system, but maybe somehow the x86_64 binary is getting run instead 🤔

Could you share the outputs of uname -s and uname -m in the Xcode Cloud environment?

Also, you might have luck installing sentry-cli via Homebrew, which I believe is preinstalled in Xcode Cloud:

brew install getsentry/tools/sentry-cli