Ionic / Cordova iOS应用程序构建错误的应用程序扩展名 - ** ARCHIVE FAILED **

Question

I am experiencing an issue with running and building an iOS application with App Extensions with Cordova/Ionic CLI. In order to make my application work properly, I had to add a couple of App Extensions (CallKit Directory and Intents), and I did it using XCode - added a new Target and wrote some stuff in Swift. Everything seems to be working when I make a build from Xcode, however Cordova CLI does not seem to be able to differentiate the main app form App Extension.

/<Path_To_The_App>/Bridging-Header.h:28:9: note: in file included from /<Path_To_The_App>/Bridging-Header.h:28:
#import "CallKit-Bridging-Header.h"
        ^
/<Path_To_The_App>/Plugins/my.custom.callkit_plugin_written_in_swift/CallKit-Bridging-Header.h:1:9: error: 'Cordova/CDV.h' file not found
#import <Cordova/CDV.h>
        ^
<unknown>:0: error: failed to import bridging header '/<Path_To_The_App>/Bridging-Header.h'


** ARCHIVE FAILED **

The following build commands failed:
        CompileSwiftSources normal arm64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler
        CompileSwift normal arm64 /My Call Directory Extension/CallDirectoryHandler.swift
        CompileSwiftSources normal arm64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler
        CompileSwift normal arm64 /My Intent Extension/IntentHandler.swift
(4 failures)

It seems like the script is attempting to use bridging header files from the main app while building an Extension, which is obviously written in Swift. In Xcode I set "Install Objective-C compatibility Header" to "No" for these two targets, but Cordova CLI does not care. Probably, re-writing the Extensions in Objective-C would solve the issue, but I don't have more time to experiment with a language I'm not good with.

I used to have another build issues related to the extension, which were fixed by adding some "ifs" to Cordova lib files, but hacking is never a good solution. Googling the topic results in nothing as though nobody has ever tried to add an App Extension to a Cordova app.

Now build can be made in two steps: 1) moving files from /www to /platforms/ios/www 2) manually running the from Xcode. That's annoying.

Does anybody know a good way to avoid this without having to hack Cordova scripts?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I spent some time learning run-command output and saw that the build process is initiated with Xcode command line tools:

xcodebuild -xcconfig <Path To My app>/platforms/ios/cordova/build-debug.xcconfig -workspace "<My App Name>.xcworkspace" -scheme "<My App Name>" -configuration "Debug" -destination generic/platform=iOS -archivePath "<My App Name>.xcarchive" archive CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=<Path To My app>/platforms/ios/build/device SHARED_PRECOMPS_DIR=<Path To My app>/platforms/ios/build/sharedpch

Documentation to this command says:

-xcconfig filename

Load the build settings defined in filename when building all targets. These settings will override all other settings, including settings passed individually on the command line.

build-debug.xcconfig imports build.xcconfig which for some reason had "SWIFT_OBJC_BRIDGING_HEADER = $(PROJECT_DIR)/$(PROJECT_NAME)/Bridging-Header.h". So apparently, it overrode bridging header for all Targets despite for .xcodeproj settings.

After commenting out this line in platforms/ios/cordova/build.xcconfig the build process runs as expected.

Answer 2

It turned out to be that Cordova build command was using a wrong Xcode version in my case.

I'm using Swift 3 and have two Xcode installed in my computer: Xcode 7.3.1 and Xcode 8.3.3. I could build my cordova app using Xcode 8.3.3 App with no problem, but when executing command cordova build ios I got the same errors as you. Here are the steps I did:

1. $ xcodebuild -version . This step gives you the version of Xcode cordova is using when building. In my case it returned Xcode 7.3.1 .

2. $ sudo xcode-select -switch [PathToYourXcodeFolder] . Switch to the Xcode version you would like to use.

You may want to check the current Xcode path: $ xcode-select -print-path .

After I switched to Xcode 8.3.3 I could run cordova build ios with no errors. Hope this helps those who have the same problem as me.