Generating ipa from xcode command-line

Question

Whats the best approach for generating an IPA file from command-line?

I\'m on xcode 4.2 and generating the archive using:

xcodebuild -scheme AppStore cle         


        

Answer 1

The missing piece is using the PackageApplication utility.

/usr/bin/xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v $FULL_PATH_TO_APP -o $OUTPUT_PATH

You can also pass this script options for resigning, and profile embedding. Using the --sign and --embed flags respectively.

Answer 2

After Archive, you need to "Export" to desired format ie ipa:

xcodebuild -sdk iphoneos7.0 -archivePath "path to archive file" -exportPath "path_for_export" -exportFormat ipa -exportArchive -exportProvisioningProfile "provisioning_profile_to_export_with"

Answer 3

This tool makes it trivial to build (and distribute): https://github.com/nomad/shenzhen