I would like to copy the contents of my iOS App Bundle to a particular directory during the Xcode build stage. Can anyone tell me how to do that?
A solution using a script in "Build Phases" does not work properly since Xcode is not finished building the app when running the script. Here is a solution with a script that runs after all build tasks are finished:
Go to "Edit Scheme"
Click on the triangle next to "Build"
Select "Post-action"
Press the + button and select "New Run Script Option"
Select your app name in "Provide build settings from"
Add the following shell script:
Script:
PRODUCT="${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${TARGET_NAME}.app"
cp -R "${PRODUCT}" ~/Desktop
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so I'm trying to build a macOS menu bar app that executes a binary (a small server) and closes it when the app is closed. I added "path/to/server >/dev/null 2>&1 &" to the "Run Script"-section in "Build Phases" and it works perfectly when executing the app from Xcode. Now I wanted to store it locally in my Applications-Folder ("Archive" -> "Distribute App" -> "Copy App"). But when I start the app from there, the server does not start. I only found solutions for executing the script before archiving, but it needs to run every time I open the application. (macOS Ventura, Xcode 14)
What do I need to do?
Thanks a lot,
Nicolas
I am working to automate the process of releasing a Mac application using xCode 5. The app is only distributed outside of the Mac App Store (Direct Distribution). I know that I can add a Run Script to be executed during the Build Phase to automate the process. I am currently using a ruby script from Craig Williams for appcast automation. The script is here: https://github.com/CraigWilliams/appcastautomation/blob/SnowLeopard/appcast_automation.rb
My question is: Are the Validate and Distribute steps necessary? Provided that code signing is completed, can I simply run the automation script and use the .zip file produced by the script or must I go through the steps outlined below and then process the "Exported" app using the script?
My current process is as follows:
Select "Archive" from xCode's Product menu.
Open Organizer and press "Validate" button.
Press "Distribute" and choose "Export Developer ID-signed
Application" then press "Next".
Select my Developer ID code signing certificate.
Press "Export" to save the MyApp.app file.
Once I have the "Exported" .app file, I am manually running the script via Terminal to create the .zip file required for Sparkle appcast. I am hoping to skip the xCode export process as a first step towards automated distribution.
Yes, it is possible to completely automate an app release process without needing to go through Xcode's Organizer to "Validate" and "Distribute" an application for Direct Distribution. It requires several Run Script Build Phases to be added to the target in XCode. This is what I ended up doing...
1) The first step was to code sign all frameworks AND the application bundle so that when the appcast automation script runs, the app that gets zipped is already code signed. This omits the need to export the app via Organizer. This Run Script is added immediately after all "copy" build phases.
IDENTITY="Developer ID Application: My Great Company."
FRAMEWORK_LOC="${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}"/"${FRAMEWORKS_FOLDER_PATH}"
codesign --verbose --force --sign "$IDENTITY" "$FRAMEWORK_LOC/Growl.framework/Versions/A"
codesign --verbose --force --sign "$IDENTITY" "$FRAMEWORK_LOC/Sparkle.framework/Versions/A"
codesign --verbose --force --sign "$IDENTITY" "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$FULL_PRODUCT_NAME"
2) The 2nd Run Script executes a Ruby script that creates a .zip file of the app and an .xml file for appcast distribution via Sparkle. The original script came from here: https://github.com/CraigWilliams/appcastautomation/blob/SnowLeopard/appcast_automation.rb
I have customized the script to also copy the unzipped app to another folder that is later used to automagically create a .dmg file.
The 2nd run script is simply:
script_file="appcast_automation.rb"
$SRCROOT/$PRODUCT_NAME/${script_file}
3) The 3rd Run Script creates a .dmg file with a custom icon, background, version, license agreement, etc... I use DropDMG's command-line tool (http://c-command.com/dropdmg/) to create the .dmg file. I have added the wm_license and wm_layout directories into the Xcode project so the script has access to them and they are versioned using git.
This Run Script is set to "Run script only when installing".
VERSIONNUM=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print CFBundleShortVersionString" "${PROJECT_DIR}/${INFOPLIST_FILE}")
layout_folder="${PROJECT_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/wm_layout"
license_folder="${PROJECT_DIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/wm_license"
dmg_folder="/Users/username/Desktop/WindowMizer/${PROJECT_NAME}_$VERSIONNUM/${PROJECT_NAME}"
dropdmg --custom-icon --license-folder=$license_folder --layout-folder=$layout_folder $dmg_folder
The list of Run Scripts and the automation files in Xcode looks like this:
So, by simply choosing "Archive" in Xcode, I end up with: a .zip file and .xml files for automatic updates via Sparkle and a .dmg file for first-time (new) downloads. The end result is this...
Everything is code-signed and ready to deploy. The only thing left to do is to upload the files to the server, which could be automated, but I prefer to do that part manually.
When time permits, and if I am allowed, I will post my modified copy of appcast_automation.rb in a github repository and add a link to it from here.
Hope this helps someone else!
I need to do some tasks before any Archive launched in Xcode.
Is there any way in Xcode to add a .sh or .py script run before Archive ?
PS : I can complete these tasks by hand but it requires time, some tasks might be forgotten or if the process is done by someone else all the tasks can be forgotten. The problem is that these tasks are required to have a successfull Apple validation.
Thanks
You can add script build phases at any point between the existing phases. Here is a post which shows you how. In Xcode 4 you select your project, then go to the build phases tab were you usually have the "target dependencies", "compile sources", "Link binary with libraries" and "copy bundle resources" phases, just click on "Add build phase" and select "Add run script". You can select your shell, but not script in python from there.
You can also look at building xcode projects from the command line. You could call that command line from a python script and do anything else you want from "outside" the Xcode project.
There is a "run script only when installing" option in Xcode Run script Build Phase, I am not able to find documentation on this. What does it do?
With Run script only when installing checked, the script only runs when do Product Archive.
In the Xcode Build System Guide (Xcode 3.2.x), it says:
Run script only when installing. Runs the script only during install builds, that is, when using the install option of xcodebuild or when the build settings Deployment Location (DEPLOYMENT_LOCATION) and Deployment Postprocessing (DEPLOYMENT_POSTPROCESSING) are on.
I have a build script calling xcodebuild. that works, but I want to also run the project from bash as well. Effectively I want to negate the need to click "Build and Run" button from the GUI. I'm looking at xcrun but it's not too obvious to me what to do
It sounds like you want to run the product of the build, not the project itself. If you want to do that, you just need to use the bash invocation for the product. If you're building a command-line program, then there will be an executable with the product's name in the project's built products directory after a succesful build. The project's built products directory depends on your preferences for Xcode and the project, but can be determined from the $BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR environment variable within an Xcode build phase.
I do this for one of my projects in a shell script. It let's me remotely build over SSH.
xcodebuild clean
xcodebuild
cp -rp ~/Projects/VSM/Mac/iCar/build/Release/iCar.app ~/Desktop/
open ~/Desktop/iCar.app
I chose to copy the app to the Desktop on purpose but you wouldn't have to.
try open xcode