More digging and I believe I understand now that I also need a provisioning profile that must be embedded in the app.
Seemingly no way to generate one of these without paying for an apple developer account, although I tried copying an XCode generated one for an xcode managed app with the same bundle id and entitlements into the bundle to see if that works. I was able to launch the application, but was getting a blank screen.
Topic:
Code Signing
SubTopic:
Entitlements
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