xcode4 - Generate xcarchive into a specific folder from the command line

Question

For the purposes of CI, I need to be able to generate an XCARCHIVE and an IPA file in our nightly build. The IPA is for our testers, to be signed with our ad-hoc keys, and the XCARCHIVE is to send to the client so that they can import it into Xcode and submit it to the app store when they're happy with it.

Generating the IPA is simple enough with a bit of googling, however how to generate the .XCARCHIVE file is what eludes me. The closest I've found is:

xcodebuild -scheme myscheme archive

However, this stores the .xcarchive in some hard-to-find folder, eg:

/Users/me/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives/2011-12-14/MyApp 14-12-11 11.42 AM.xcarchive

Is there some way to control where the archive is put, what its name is, and how to avoid having to re-compile it? I guess the best possible outcome would be to generate the xcarchive from the DSYM and APP that are generated when you do an 'xcodebuild build' - is this possible?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8722633/generate-xcarchive-into-a-specific-folder-from-the-command-line

Answer 1

Xcode 5 now supports an -archivePath option:

xcodebuild -scheme myscheme archive -archivePath /path/to/AppName.xcarchive

You can also now export a signed IPA from the archive you just built:

xcodebuild -exportArchive -exportFormat IPA -exportProvisioningProfile my_profile_name -archivePath /path/to/AppName.xcarchive -exportPath /path/to/AppName.ipa