Xcodebuild'ing a workspace and setting a custom build path

Question

I\'m trying to use xcodebuild to build a multi-project project in a workspace. When XCode builds a workspace it automatically places all build artifacts in a co

Answer 1

I also met this problem when I build my project from Jenkins CI tool. My main project depends a sub-project. I have tried building follow @Chilloutman's solution like this:

xcodebuild -target TravelGuideMdd -sdk iphoneos -configuration DailyBuild clean build CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=/Users/mobileserver/jenkins_home/jobs/TravelGuide-Buid-For-Me/workspace/build BUILD_DIR =/Users/mobileserver/jenkins_home/jobs/TravelGuide-Buid-For-Me/workspace/build

or

xcodebuild -target TravelGuideMdd -sdk iphoneos -configuration DailyBuild clean build CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=/Users/mobileserver/jenkins_home/jobs/TravelGuide-Buid-For-Me/workspace/build 

Both of them occur errors Could not find iphoneos in /Users/mobileserver/jenkins_home/jobs/TravelGuide-Buid-For-Me/workspace/build

But I get success finally using this:

xcodebuild -target TravelGuideMdd -sdk iphoneos6.1 -configuration DailyBuild clean build SYMROOT=/Users/mobileserver/jenkins_home/jobs/TravelGuide-Buid-For-Me/workspace/build 

That is: Setting the SYMROOT with a absolute paths.

Answer 2

The best solution i have found so far is to use the CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR parameter with an ABSOLUTE path (e.g. /tmp/$PROJECT/build). Like this:

xcodebuild -scheme "scheme" -configuration Debug -sdk iphoneos clean build CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=$ABSOLUTE_BUILD_PATH

I use Jenkins and there I have an variable named $WORKSPACE. With $WORKSPACE/build as my CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR I have a solution I'm happy with.

The relative paths don't seem to work as expected. We should file a bug report.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if this is a new option but the 5.0 release of xcodebuild has an option -derivedDataPath which allows you to specify the directory you'd like all the build products to sit in.

For instance, passing -derivedDataPath build creates the folder build relative to where you ran xcodebuild from, and you can find your app predictably in a subfolder like build/Build/Products/Release-iphoneos.

Documentation: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/xcodebuild.1.html