Building an iOS app with Jenkins

Question

I want to automate the iOS app building process that currently is totally manual on a desktop computer (Mac). A central build server Hudson/Jenkins, running on a Gnu/Linux machine, is already available inside the organization infrastructure.

Is it possible to build this iOS app with Jenkins, using tools like Jenkins distributed builds (and so configuring a Mac machine as a slave)?

Do you have any example, know any technique or alternative to do this?

Answer 1

Yes its possible. We are doing this and it works fine. You could configure a Xcode-slave within Jenkins by choosing the Xcode-plugin. There are tons of nice tutorials on the web.

Check out this one for starters.