Xamarin: Generate xcarchive from command line

Question

Is there a possibility to directly generate a xcarchive file from the command line? So that you can generate an AppStore build with a CI tool like Jenkins?

With Xcode it seems you can, but I'm using Xamarin Studio on Mac. Anyway is this possible? Or can you manually create an xcarchive file with the app, dsym and plist?

Answer 1

On my build server I use the following commands to create an AppStore signed ipa file from an archive.

/Applications/Xamarin\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/mdtool -v build "--configuration:AppStore|iPhone" -p:RssReader.iOS Apps/RssReader.sln || exit 1

# transform the archive into a .ipa package
xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v "${WORKSPACE}/Apps/RssReader/iOS/RssReader.iOS/bin/iPhone/AppStore/RssReader.app" -o "${WORKSPACE}/Apps/RssReader/iOS/RssReader.iOS/bin/iPhone/AppStore/RssReader-${BUILD_NUMBER}-appstore.ipa"