Archive with Xcode's command line build tool (xcodebuild archive)

ios command-line xcode4 xcodebuild

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Solution 1

For information I'm 99% sure that xcodebuild archive was working in a previous Xcode 4 version, maybe a Beta... And this is really frustrating since -verbose and syslogs doesn't bring much details.

So I would call that... a Bug!

If automating your build is what you are looking for, there is a way to generate IPA archive from command line using xcrun PackageApplication

With xcrun to package and xcodebuild to build, you can almost achieve what xcodebuild archive is supposed to do. I would prefer to use xcodebuild since we can expect this to generate a .xcarchive (.app + .dSYM), more interesting than an IPA.

Not so off-topic, but if anyone knows how to get more logs from xcodebuild and Xcode, I'm really interested!

EDIT: After looking in Apple Forums, I confirm this is an Xcode BUG introduced with GM2... I guess Apple Xcode engineers are working on Xcode 4.1 that I think final version will be released with OSX Lion... In june maybe? With a fix? :(

Solution 2

This seems to work for me:

xcodebuild -project TestApp.xcodeproj  -scheme TestApp -configuration "Ad Hoc" archive

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Steven Fisher

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Updated on July 09, 2022

Comments

Steven Fisher almost 2 years
The command line tool to build Xcode projects, xcodebuild, has a new build action available in Xcode 4: archive.

From man xcodebuild:
```
       archive     Archive a scheme from the build root (SYMROOT).  This requires specifying
                   a workspace and scheme.
```
Unfortunately, when I try to use it I get an error:
```
$ xcodebuild archive -workspace SimpleTestApp.xcworkspace -scheme SimpleTestApp
xcodebuild: error: Failed to build workspace SimpleTestApp with scheme SimpleTestApp.
    Reason: The selected run destination is not valid for this action.
```
My impression is this doesn't actually work yet. Has anyone got it to work? If so, how?
- Taras Kalapun about 13 years
  
  Anyone knows how to start xcodebuild archive?
- Steven Fisher about 13 years
  
  Yeah, I'm calling it against a workspace not a project.
- ljkyser almost 13 years
  
  Are you able to build fine from within xcode?
- Steven Fisher almost 13 years
  
  Yes, it works fine within the IDE. But I want to automate my build.
- RPM almost 11 years
  
  Make sure the name of the scheme is exactly the same. my scheme was called "MyProject Ent" in Xcode and from command line I was calling "MyProjectEnt" and that was not correct. Edit this is "Manage Schemes"
- Steven Fisher almost 11 years
  
  It probably would have worked if you'd quoted it, too: -scheme "MyProject Ent"
Steven Fisher almost 13 years

Yeah, it works fine in the GUI. xcodebuild is the name of the command line component to do it. I'm clarifying this a bit in the question, thanks.
Steven Fisher almost 13 years

That's my forum thread. :) It seems like what I want isn't possible at this point.
Vincent Guerci almost 13 years

Haha, I should have checked names! That is bogging me too, I love archives concept, and the simplification it brings for AppStore submission, but would love too to automate this in the beta stage! >_<
keegan3d almost 12 years

It seems to be broken again in 4.3.2: unsupported build action 'archive' :(
Vincent Guerci almost 12 years

I've abandoned the idea of using this a long time ago... and use Xcode IDE to do this... man xcodebuild still mention archive as a valid buildaction... sounds like a bug... again.