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Building Xcode projects with TeamCity

March 23rd, 2012 by Maxim Manuylov

Until today continuous integration for Xcode projects within TeamCity was tedious and error-prone process. All you could do is to configure command line build step in a build configuration, somehow mark agents where Xcode is installed and manually configure agent requirements in build configuration, otherwise your build could go to an agent without Xcode installed and fail. Features like compilation errors recognition and on-the-fly test reporting were not available too.

But today we would like to announce a plugin which should make building Xcode projects much more convenient. The Xcode runner plugin provides dedicated Xcode runner, which brings a lot of goodies:

  • user friendly interface
  • support for both Xcode 3 and Xcode 4 projects
  • automatic on-the-fly reporting of tests started by Xcode build


  • automatic detection of Xcode presence on agent
  • parsing of Xcode build log and recognition of compilation errors


  • hierarchical view for Xcode build log

A couple of notes about user interface. As you can see below, you can select whether you want to build your project with Xcode 3 or Xcode 4. Xcode 3 build is target based, but there is no need to remember exact names of your targets, platforms and SDKs, if you press “Check/Reparse” button, TeamCity will parse Xcode project files and fill in the form with settings from the project, thus making it very easy to configure desired Xcode parameters.

In case of Xcode 4 the process is even simpler, all you need is to specify name of the scheme.

You can download plugin from the plugin page: Xcode runner.
Installation is simple, just put the plugin under <TeamCity data directory>/plugins folder and restart TeamCity server. After that agents will upgrade, and you can start configuring your Xcode build configuration.
The plugin is still in early beta state and can have bugs and usability issues. Feel free to report them to our tracker: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/TW.
Note that plugin is compatible with TeamCity 7.0, it won’t work with earlier versions.

By the way, as an Objective-C developer you might also be interested to know that JetBrains has recently released a new version of AppCode – a smart IDE for Objective-C developers building native Cocoa apps for MacOS X or iOS with a bunch of new refactorings, enhanced debugger and a lot of other goodies.

Enjoy!

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