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Generating ipa from xcode command-line

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command-line

ios

build

ipa

Whats the best approach for generating an IPA file from command-line?

I'm on xcode 4.2 and generating the archive using:

xcodebuild -scheme AppStore clean archive

This generates the .dSYM and .app files in the build output directory, after codesigning. How should I proceed to generate the .ipa file? In other words, I'm looking for the command-line equivalent of doing the following in GUI

  1. Organizer - Archives
  2. Share
  3. iOS App Store Package
  4. Don't Re-sign

Thanks!

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Vasanth Avatar asked Nov 30 '11 23:11

Vasanth

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2 Answers

The missing piece is using the PackageApplication utility.

/usr/bin/xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v $FULL_PATH_TO_APP -o $OUTPUT_PATH

You can also pass this script options for resigning, and profile embedding. Using the --sign and --embed flags respectively.

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Joshua Weinberg Avatar answered Oct 28 '22 15:10

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This tool makes it trivial to build (and distribute): https://github.com/nomad/shenzhen

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Rayfleck Avatar answered Oct 28 '22 14:10

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