xcode-build-tool v0.3.0

Xcode build tool

This is a command-line tool for executing a build of an Xcode project.

It is made with iOS development in mind, and have not been tested with Mac apps.

Required

• A Mac (nothing else can run Xcode anyway).
• Xcode (I use this project myself against the newest stable Xcode. It might work against other versions as well).
• Node.js: The scripting-environment that the advances stuff is done in.

How to use in node.js

Start by installing it:

npm install xcode-build-tool

Then add the following code:

var xcode = require('xcode-build-tool')
var buildResults = xcode.build(codeDir, config)

The buildResults object is a combination of a stream and a promise.

This means that you can interact with it in several ways. It emits several events:

• totalTasks: The number of tasks. This will be the same number as the total parameter of the message. This will be sent before the first task starts.

• message: A high-level message sent when the next internal task is started.

  The message is an object of the following structure:

  { current: 5 // The current task number
  , total: 7 // The total number of tasks
  , message: 'Building target' // A line describing what is happening
  }

• end: Sent when everything is completed.

• data: Sent whenever something happens on one of the underlying stdout streams.

Being a stream, it also have a pipe-method. This is hooked up to the stdout of the underlying processes like xcodebuild.

It also have a .then and .catch method so it is compatible with the Promise spec. The promise is resolved slightly after the end event is emitted.

See index.js for an example of how to interact with the result object.

Why use Node.js and not bash?

I did the original test in bash only, but stopped when I wanted it to be an external project. Since many of the values used is dependent on the current version of the code, it would be prudent to keep this in the repository along with the code.

A bash-script that calls the build-script could do this as well, of course, but I like a static configuration-file more than a collection of scripts.

Oh, and I am much more confident in javascript than bash-scripting, which is an even better reason :).

Credits

• mobileprovision-read: The current version relies on this project. It has been bundled with this project for ease of installation.