[Interest] Building iOS from command line

[Boris Ralchenko]

I do have the bundle ID specified explicitly in the Info.plist. 

I prefer Xcode for debugging/packaging. It appears to be more efficient way when I needed to figure out command line build, less tools to take care of. It is possible that QtCreator GUI has something that command line tools have not. 

	<key>CFBundleIcons~ipad</key>
	<dict/>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.viewpoint.kiosk</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleName</key>
	<string>ViewPoint</string>
	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
	<string>APPL</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>1.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
	<string>com.viewpoint.kiosk</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>1.0</string>

Regards,
    Boris Ralchenko.





> On Jun 18, 2020, at 2:58 PM, Jérôme Godbout <godboutj at amotus.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have an Info.plist that I have into my project. I have the following entry into my Info.plist file:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd <http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
>          <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
>          <string>${PRODUCT_NAME}</string>
>          <key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
>          <string>${EXECUTABLE_NAME}</string>
>          <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
>          <string>Created by Qt/QMake</string>
>          <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
>          <string>$(PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER)</string>
>          <key>CFBundleName</key>
>          <string>${PRODUCT_NAME}</string>
>          <key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
>          <string>APPL</string>
>     ...
> </dict>
>  
> From my .pro:
> Q_PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER.value = ca.amotus.NubitusApp
> From my ios .pri (I use the same .pri for all iOS application):
> DISTFILES += ios/Info.plist 
> Q_PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER.name = PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER
> QMAKE_MAC_XCODE_SETTINGS += Q_PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIERQMAKE_INFO_PLIST = ios/Info.plist
>  
> I was guessing the replacement should have happen. or does the above variables only work when inside QtCreator GUI?
>  
>  
> From: Boris Ralchenko <bralchenko at ics.com <mailto:bralchenko at ics.com>> 
> Sent: June 18, 2020 2:46 PM
> To: Jérôme Godbout <godboutj at amotus.ca <mailto:godboutj at amotus.ca>>
> Cc: interest at qt-project.org <mailto:interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Building iOS from command line
>  
> Hi Jérôme, 
>  
> We have a separate Info.plist for command line build, it should solve the bundle ID issue. I don’t remember exactly the details, it was couple of years ago. But I did check - there is an Info.plist in the repository. I suspect Qt Creator generates one too, but I rely on the one from Xcode.
>  
> Regards,
>     Boris Ralchenko.
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 18, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Jérôme Godbout <godboutj at amotus.ca <mailto:godboutj at amotus.ca>> wrote:
>  
> Hi,
> I’m trying to build my project from my CI system to generate the .ipa (and stop releasing by hand over. But I seem to be missing something into my way of doing it (I managed to do it for Android, armv7/armv8 .apk and .aab). Here is my steps raw command line steps (not the provisioning, certificate and the keychain are installed and work with a Xamarin and Unity application with the same setup, the question is not about those parts).
>  
> I’m building on lastest MacOS X, xcode is up to date and Qt 5.15.0
>  
> "/Users/Shared/Qt/5.15.0/ios/bin/qmake" Nubitus.pro -spec macx-ios-clang CONFIG+=release CONFIG+=iphoneos CONFIG+=device CONFIG+=qtquickcompiler -after
> make -f Makefile qmake_all
> make
>  
> The Qmake generate the makefile, make qmake_all work just fine, but the make build give me the following error:
> Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profiles matching 'com.yourcompany.NubitusApp'
>  
> but my .pro clearly indicate
> Q_PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER.value = ca.amotus.NubitusApp
>  
> When building from inside QtCreator this work and the provisioning is also working just fine. so my question: Why is the build any different? is QtCreator doing any extra steps not print into the output? is there any env variables required for Q_PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER to be used? Did I miss a step?!
>  
> Extra points question: will this generate an .ipa or .app ? How does one generate a .ipa from the command lines out of the result build by Qt make?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
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