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The command line tool to build Xcode projects, xcodebuild, has a new build action available in Xcode 4: archive.

From man xcodebuild:

 archive Archive a scheme from the build root (SYMROOT). This requires specifying a workspace and scheme.

Unfortunately, when I try to use it I get an error:

$ xcodebuild archive -workspace SimpleTestApp.xcworkspace -scheme SimpleTestApp xcodebuild: error: Failed to build workspace SimpleTestApp with scheme SimpleTestApp. Reason: The selected run destination is not valid for this action.

My impression is this doesn't actually work yet. Has anyone got it to work? If so, how?

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  • Anyone knows how to start xcodebuild archive?
    – Taras Kalapun
    CommentedApr 7, 2011 at 16:45
  • Yeah, I'm calling it against a workspace not a project.
    – Steven Fisher
    CommentedApr 11, 2011 at 17:26
  • Are you able to build fine from within xcode?
    – ljkyser
    CommentedApr 27, 2011 at 20:14
  • Yes, it works fine within the IDE. But I want to automate my build.
    – Steven Fisher
    CommentedMay 6, 2011 at 21:56
  • Make sure the name of the scheme is exactly the same. my scheme was called "MyProject Ent" in Xcode and from command line I was calling "MyProjectEnt" and that was not correct. Edit this is "Manage Schemes"
    – RPM
    CommentedJun 13, 2013 at 20:04

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For information I'm 99% sure that xcodebuild archive was working in a previous Xcode 4 version, maybe a Beta... And this is really frustrating since -verbose and syslogs doesn't bring much details.

So I would call that... a Bug!

If automating your build is what you are looking for, there is a way to generate IPA archive from command line using xcrun PackageApplication

With xcrun to package and xcodebuild to build, you can almost achieve what xcodebuild archive is supposed to do. I would prefer to use xcodebuild since we can expect this to generate a .xcarchive (.app + .dSYM), more interesting than an IPA.

Not so off-topic, but if anyone knows how to get more logs from xcodebuild and Xcode, I'm really interested!

EDIT: After looking in Apple Forums, I confirm this is an Xcode BUG introduced with GM2... I guess Apple Xcode engineers are working on Xcode 4.1 that I think final version will be released with OSX Lion... In june maybe? With a fix? :(

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  • That's my forum thread. :) It seems like what I want isn't possible at this point.
    – Steven Fisher
    CommentedMay 18, 2011 at 18:28
  • Haha, I should have checked names! That is bogging me too, I love archives concept, and the simplification it brings for AppStore submission, but would love too to automate this in the beta stage! >_<
    – Vincent Guerci
    CommentedMay 18, 2011 at 18:41
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    It seems to be broken again in 4.3.2: unsupported build action 'archive' :(
    – keegan3d
    CommentedJun 11, 2012 at 21:53
  • I've abandoned the idea of using this a long time ago... and use Xcode IDE to do this... man xcodebuild still mention archive as a valid buildaction... sounds like a bug... again.
    – Vincent Guerci
    CommentedJun 13, 2012 at 17:22
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This seems to work for me:

xcodebuild -project TestApp.xcodeproj -scheme TestApp -configuration "Ad Hoc" archive
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    Is this working from the GUI ? Project -> Build for Archive Then you can find the archive back in Organizer (archive Tab) It is working for me in the GUI

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    • Yeah, it works fine in the GUI. xcodebuild is the name of the command line component to do it. I'm clarifying this a bit in the question, thanks.
      – Steven Fisher
      CommentedMay 6, 2011 at 21:56

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