Batch Build and Archive of iOS apps via Terminal

Question

I am trying to simplify the build->archive->submit process for iOS app publishing. We have over 50 mobile apps that have nearly identical framework, but with different artwork a

Answer 1

OK I found a solution that will work. After doing a lot more searching and a lot of guess and check, I found I can still use the "archive" option with xcodebuild, I just have to specify a workspace and scheme and apparently I wasn't doing that correctly before as it now works.

So, for anyone looking for a similar solution (to batch archive xcode projects), here is my function:

# $mybase will be the current directory at the time the function was called
# so make sure to cd into the folder containing the xcode project folders first

function xcodeArchive {
    mybase=$PWD
    for x in `ls`
    do
        cd $mybase/$x
        xcodebuild -workspace $x.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace -scheme $x archive
        cd $mybase
    done
}
export -f xcodeArchive

Answer 2

I had the same issue with the archive command, and found this question via Google. It would fail with this build command:

xcodebuild -verbose -project $ProductName.xcodeproj -target $ProductName -configuration Release -sdk $SDK clean archive CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR="$PROJECT_PATH/build" PROVISIONING_PROFILE="${DIST_PROVISONING_PROFILE}"

Yet, it would succeed with this build command:

xcodebuild -verbose -project $ProductName.xcodeproj -scheme $ProductName -configuration Release -sdk $SDK clean archive CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR="$PROJECT_PATH/build" PROVISIONING_PROFILE="${DIST_PROVISONING_PROFILE}"

The only difference is specifying the scheme in lieu of the target to build. If there is a sensible reason for this behavior, I'd enjoy hearing it.

I'm running XCode 4.5.1 on Mac OS X 10.7.5