Problem with Blackberry RIM Signature Tool

Question

Hi,

I have some COD files that I have developed using the Widget toolkit for Visual Studio. These cod files need signed before I can use them on a device.

When I open the signature Tool from within Eclipse (3.4.0) every COD file from the current workspace is shown in the list. If I hit the 'Add' button and select the COD file I want to sign from another location the COD file isn't being listed with all of the other files.

I tried running the Signature Tool from the command line and the same thing happens, I hit Add, select the COD file and then nothing happens. If I specify the COD file on the command line then I get an error saying that the Signature Tool can't find any COD files.

The only exception to this was today, just before I went for lunch. When I clicked Add and selected the COD file it appeared in the list and I could sign it as expected but every other time I've tried it doesn't work.

Any suggestions as to what is happening or any other approaches I can take?

Answer 1

We use the BlackBerry Ant Tools for signing from the command line and it works great. All it does it launch the actual RIM signing tool but it takes care of passing in the correct list of files and (optionally) your signing password - so it can be more or less automated. I haven't encountered problems with it other than the odd time when RIM's signing servers are down.

Answer 2

The issue was that the generated .csl and .cso file was not present in the same directory so the signature tool wasn't aware of which API's needed signed.