How to build an iOS framework using xcodebuild?

Question

Trying to build my iOS framework from the command line, I get "MyFramework.framework.xcarchive" instead of "MyFramework.framework".

I get the proper result when building within Xcode, just not from the command line.

My command to build is really simple:

xcodebuild -project myFramework.xcodeproj -scheme myScheme -archivePath "/dev/builds" archive

Where is my '.framework' file?

Answer 1

I think you don't get build result in form of .framework because you're passing excessive archive parameter. Normally to build framework such command should work:

$ xcodebuild -project TestFramework.xcodeproj -scheme TestFramework -configuration Release -sdk macosx CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR=. clean build

Note that in this example build directory is current one. As a result you'll get two build flavours: TestFramework.framework and TestFramework.framework.dSYM