xcodebuild - how to use build settings from xcode

Question

I'm trying to build several targets and I already have Build Settings per target in Xcode. I also have a scheme per target. What I'm trying to do is issue one command line instruction to build each target, something like:

xcodebuild - project MyProject.xcodeproj - scheme PRODScheme archive - archivePath /Users/myUser/Documents/PRODApps/archives/"${PRODUCT_NAME}".xcarchive - configuration Release

Here, ${PRODUCT_NAME} is the Build Setting variable defined by XCode. I'm thinking on how xcodebuild can make use of the bunch of already defined settings.

Is there a way of reusing those settings in xcodebuild?

Answer 1

Typically you would use the scheme , which would contain the other information you are trying to include:

xcodebuild -scheme PRODScheme build

To use with a configuration file you would use:

xcodebuild -target MyProject.xcodeproj -xcconfig configuration.xcconfig

To build all targets use -alltargets

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Command Line tech notes: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/technotes/tn2339/_index.html

Man xcodebuild: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/xcodebuild.1.html