parameter for xcodebuild for using latest sdk.

xcode ant ios build hudson
Maciek Sawicki picture Maciek Sawicki · Nov 30, 2010 · Viewed 32.8k times · Source

I using ant exec task to execute xcodebuild to build some iOS projects hudson. I would like to be able to crate script that way that allows not to specify sdk version, because after updating sdk on hudson slave or my iOS projects all my projects failing....

There is is nice option in xcode since sdk 4.2 in target setup Base SDK - Latest iOS

and I don't have to provide -sdk param in xcodebuild command, but then (i think) it's taken from xcode project and it's bad because then some one can change target from simulator to device accidentally during commit.

I need something that is constant. I will prefer not to use env variable because I would like to be able to run this ant task also on dev machines and would like not have to renember about setting it on all machines.

Unfortunately xcodebuild -showsdks gives only:

Mac OS X SDKs:
    Mac OS X 10.4                   -sdk macosx10.4
    Mac OS X 10.5                   -sdk macosx10.5
    Mac OS X 10.6                   -sdk macosx10.6

iOS SDKs:
    iOS 4.2                         -sdk iphoneos4.2

iOS Simulator SDKs:
    Simulator - iOS 3.2             -sdk iphonesimulator3.2
    Simulator - iOS 4.0             -sdk iphonesimulator4.0
    Simulator - iOS 4.1             -sdk iphonesimulator4.1
    Simulator - iOS 4.2             -sdk iphonesimulator4.2

I need something like -sdk iphoneosLatest. My only idea is to pare output of xcodebuild -showsdks with some script, but I don't like this idea.

Answer

David Lacourt picture David Lacourt · Apr 8, 2011

You can use xcodebuild with the latest SDK using :

  • xcodebuild -sdk iphoneos, for Device
  • xcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator, for Simulator.

We use these options for our automated builds and it's been working since XCode 3.2.5

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