Xcode Treasures

Building on the Command Line

It turns out you don’t have to be running Xcode to build an Xcode project. The command-line tools installed with Xcode include xcodebuild, which lets you perform build actions on the command line or as part of a shell script.

This style of build is particularly important when you’re doing continuous integration, in which your codebase is being automatically built on a regular basis. One common technique for this is to set up Jenkins,^[9] which can scan for commits to a source control system like Git (to be introduced later, in Chapter 10, ​Source Control Management​), check out the project, build it, and then package it for distribution or send emails if the build failed. For this to work, the CI script has to have ...