Web and WebWorks Development

[oros]

And what about just a straight bbwp package (i.e. no -g)?

[nathanpc]

Interestingly enough that was without the -g argument.

[oros]

Here are some recommendations from a colleague.

Try this on the terminal:
echo ${HOME}

Just to double check.

You aren't using sudo when signing right?

Or try this one on terminal, if it succeeded there's something wrong in the environment variable:
HOME=/Users/Nathan bbwp -g <signpass> <sourcedir> -o <outputDir>

I usually just add the bbwp dir and the dependencies/tools/bin dir to the PATH environment variable to make life easier (use terminal):

PATH=<wwsdkpath>:<wwsdkpath>/dependencies/tools/bin:$PATH
export PATH

After that you can use blackberry-signer and blackberry-deploy anywhere without changing dir.

There's a good idea of setting the HOME variable directly in the actual call, though at this point I'm fairly certain it's properly set.

[oros]

That is indeed interesting. I don't see why it would be looking for code signing keys if that wasn't specified in the first place...

Would you happen to have time for a Skype (or I can set up an online meeting) so that we could do some screen sharing? If so, fire me an email to eoros@rim.com with a time tomorrow (Wednesday, December 5th) that might work for you or later this week if that works better?

That should give me time to round up a Mac / WebWorks guru to help guide us in person. As well, if you could request a new set of CSJ files just in case we need a new registration at some point, that would be ideal.

I'm hoping that if we sit down and walk through the process, something will stand out...

[nathanpc]

Sadly, here's the results:

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ echo ${HOME}/Users/NathanNathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ HOME=/Users/NathanNathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ /Developer/SDKs/Research\ In\ Motion/BlackBerry\ WebWorks\ SDK\ for\ TabletOS\ 2.2.0.5/bbwp/bbwp build/BBApp.zip -g ******** -o build/
[INFO]      		Parsing command line options
[ERROR]     		Cannot sign application - failed to find signing keys
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ PATH=/Developer/SDKs/Research\ In\ Motion/BlackBerry\ WebWorks\ SDK\ for\ TabletOS\ 2.2.0.5/bbwp:$PATHNathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ export PATH
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ bbwp build/BBApp.zip -g ******** -o build/[INFO]      		Parsing command line options
[ERROR]     		Cannot sign application - failed to find signing keys
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$

[nathanpc]

Just sent you an email about the methods and the time.

[peardox]

I had exectly the same problem

My stupid Mac installed everything in /Developer

The solution is actually quite easy

OSX is Linux-based but you run as a restricted privs user

Open a terminal

sudo su -l (your Mac pass is rqd)

You're now able to do anything

First thing to do...

cd /

/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

This is a useful process (takes a while) as it indexes your drive - now you can find out where everything is

[I'll start typing again when update has finished - doing mine now <g>]

Now type ...

locate bbwp/bbwp

This will tell you where bbwp is if you don't know

Now create a text file with the following contents

#!/bin/bash

<path to bbwp>/bbwp $1.zip -d -v -gp12 <password> -gcsk <another password> -buildId $2

In the <path to> bit add a \ windows-style slash before every space

Save the file as bbuild

chmod 700 bbuild

mv bbuild /usr/bin

You can now build test.zip with a buildId of 123 using the following command

bbuild test 123

There's a similar script I use for installing stuff wirelessly

I use exactly the same build kit on Windoze (same script almost)

It's a good idea to create a directory for builds (I use /src/bars)

You HAVE to root yourself in order to use bbuild but it always works

Took me a day to fight through the code just to build the stupid build chains

[nathanpc · Accepted solution]

Thanks very very very much for your help peardox. I was reading your reply and I realized the only thing I haven't tried, which was trying to run as root, and I got some pretty interesting results.

The first thing I tried was to do the usual command and got the same error:

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ sudo /Developer/SDKs/Research\ In\ Motion/BlackBerry\ WebWorks\ SDK\ for\ TabletOS\ 2.2.0.5/bbwp/bbwp build/BBApp.zip -g ****** -o build/
[INFO]      		Parsing command line options
[ERROR]     		Cannot sign application - failed to find signing keys
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$

Then I started to separate things beginning with the compiler, which finally worked and haven't gave me that file not found error while trying to package everything:

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ sudo /Developer/SDKs/Research\ In\ Motion/BlackBerry\ WebWorks\ SDK\ for\ TabletOS\ 2.2.0.5/bbwp/bbwp build/BBApp.zip -o build/
[INFO]      		Parsing command line options
[INFO]      		Parsing bbwp.properties
[INFO]      		Validating WebWorks archive
[INFO]      		Parsing config.xml 
[INFO]      		Populating application source
[INFO]      		Compiling WebWorks application
[INFO]      		Packaging the bar file
[INFO]      		Bar packaging complete
[INFO]      		WebWorks application packaging complete
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$

Since that worked I began to try signing which finally gave me a interesting error that led me to the solution:

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ sudo /Developer/SDKs/Research\ In\ Motion/BlackBerry\ WebWorks\ SDK\ for\ TabletOS\ 2.2.0.5/bbwp/blackberry-tablet-sdk/bin/blackberry-signer -storepass ******* build/BBApp.bar

Error: Keystore load: /Users/Nathan/Library/Research In Motion/author.p12 (No such file or directory)
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$

So the first thing I did was move all the contents from ~/Research in Motion/ (where the SDK generated the signing files). After I did that I tried again and got this:

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ sudo /Developer/SDKs/Research\ In\ Motion/BlackBerry\ WebWorks\ SDK\ for\ TabletOS\ 2.2.0.5/bbwp/blackberry-tablet-sdk/bin/blackberry-signer -storepass ******** build/BBApp.bar

Error: Code signing request failed because Application-Development-Mode in Manifest is present and is not set to [false].
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$

 That error was very interesting so I did a Google search and found this StackOverflow answer. So I generated a new certificate and got the same error as before, but this time when I ran the compiler BOOM it worked perfectly.

Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$ sudo /Developer/SDKs/Research\ In\ Motion/BlackBerry\ WebWorks\ SDK\ for\ TabletOS\ 2.2.0.5/bbwp/bbwp build/BBApp.zip -g ******** -o build/
[INFO]      		Parsing command line options
[INFO]      		Parsing bbwp.properties
[INFO]      		Validating WebWorks archive
[INFO]      		Parsing config.xml 
[INFO]      		Populating application source
[INFO]      		Compiling WebWorks application
[INFO]      		Packaging the bar file
[INFO]      		Bar packaging complete
[INFO]      		Starting signing tool
[INFO]      		Signing complete
[INFO]      		WebWorks application packaging complete
Nathan-Camposs-MacBook-Pro:BBApp Nathan$

After that I transfered the bar file to my PlayBook and the app worked perfectly.

I want to thanks very much everyone that helped me with this and sorry for the long post, but I wanted to make this as detailed as possible so other users having the same issue could resolve it as I did. Again, thanks very much for everyone.

[peardox]

That was my next suggestion (keys)

Wanted to find out how my solution worked first as there have been a load of signing problems reported recently

Glad you got it sorted

I didn't even get a like

[nathanpc]

Just liked your post. Sorry I was busy contacting oros via email to notify that it got resolved.