mokagio / gradlexcodeissuedemo

Project demonstrating a possible issue in gradle-xcodePlugin

This is a dummy project demonstrating a possible issue in gradle-xcodePlugin.

The Issue

My theory is that the plugin is not supporting running xcodebuild for projects located in a subfolder rather than in the current directory.

Example

Running gradle xcodebuild works in this case:

MyApp/
  |
  |_ MyApp.xcodeproj

But doesn't work in this:

MyProject/
  |
  |_ MyApp/
    |
    |_ MyApp.xcodeproj

To reproduce clone the repo and run gradle xcodebuild from its root, you should get an output similar to the one in gradle_output.txt.

The relevant error message being:

xcodebuild: error: The directory /Users/me/path/to/repo/GradleXcodeIssueDemo does not contain an Xcode project or workspace.

Note that setting the value of projectFile doesn't solve the issue. See this project's build.gradle.

Proposed Solution

xcodebuild itself has a -project option to specify the location of the xcodeproj folder.

The plugin should set the -project option for xcodebuild using the value of the projectFile configuration, if any is set.

From what I can understand the proper place where to do it is in the build() task action of XcodeBuildTask.

To verify that using the -project option works run the successful_xcodebuild executable.