xcodebuild command line hangs - xcode

Question

The following command hangs on my osx:
xcodebuild -scheme myscheme clean archive -archivePath /tmp
This command yields two output lines, and then hangs:
User defaults from command line:
IDEArchivePathOverride = /tmp
Now, this project does NOT have a workspace generated as it was created from a cordova command line (cordova build ios). The only way around it is to open xcode and close it. this generates a workspace and then the above command succeeds.
Did anyone experience something similar and know a way out of this? Any way to generate that workspace from the command line?

Answer 1

I had the same problem and the only way of fixing it was to open the project from the command line, wait, and close it again after a certain time.
open "My Project.xcodeproj"
sleep 10
killall Xcode
xcodebuild -scheme "My Project" clean archive "build/MyProject"
Not nice, but works for me.

Answer 2

Try setting the scheme to be 'shared'.
This can be done by going to the 'Manage Schemes...' and checking the 'Shared' checkbox.
Apple documents this process here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-scheme_editor/Articles/SchemeShare.html

Answer 3

If you're already have, or are willing to make, Ruby available to your build system then you could use this solution.
Install the xcodeproj gem on your build system
sudo gem install xcodeproj
and then integrate the following ruby script into your project (renaming your xcodeproj path).
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'xcodeproj'
xcproj = Xcodeproj::Project.open("platforms/ios/schemedemo.xcodeproj")
xcproj.recreate_user_schemes
xcproj.save
The article explains how to make it part of a cordova hook if you're doing that, I simply called ruby directly from my Jenkins build.
This works because when you recreate the proj files, you destroy the schemes, so you need to recreate them.

Answer 4

I believe xcodebuild hangs because some data is missing from the project. You can make a template for what this data looks like and use a hook to populate it if necessary.
cordova add platform ios
cordova build ...
open platforms/ios/Whatever.xcodeproj in xcode
create xcuserdata_template
cp -R platforms/ios/Whatever.xcodeproj/xcuserdata xcuserdata_template/
replace the unique id in that template with XXXXXXXXXX
update your hook that runs xcodebuild
Step 7 example:
XCODE_PROJ=path/to/Whatever.xcodeproj
# get the mysterious id
ID=`grep "Whatever \*\/ = {" $XCODE_PROJ/project.pbxproj | \
grep -io "[-A-Z0-9]\{24\}"`
mkdir -p $XCODE_PROJ/xcuserdata
XCUSERDATAD=$XCODE_PROJ/xcuserdata/`whoami`.xcuserdatad
if [ ! -d "$XCUSERDATAD" ]; then
cp -R path/to/xcuserdata_template/username.xcuserdatad \
$XCUSERDATAD
find $XCUSERDATAD -type f -exec sed -i '' -e "s/XXXXXXXXXX/$ID/g" {} \;
fi
xcodebuild ...