IPA creation fails

[chrycheng]

For iOS projects only, I think. From the Console Output:

SICCI for Xcode: creating IPA: xxxxxxxx AlphaDistribution failed

But the default value of Per-configuration Build Products Path is:

$(PROJECT_TEMP_DIR)/$(CONFIGURATION)$(EFFECTIVE_PLATFORM_NAME)

[bbiallowons]

To sum, am I right with the following:

Standard: $(PROJECT_TEMP_DIR)/build/$(CONFIGURATION)-$(EFFECTIVE_PLATFORM_NAME)/
ex.: TestProject/build/Debug-iphoneos/

Your:
$(PROJECT_TEMP_DIR)/$(CONFIGURATION)$(EFFECTIVE_PLATFORM_NAME)
ex.: TestProject/Debugiphoneos/

[chrycheng]

Sorry, I made a mistake. I double-checked again and the value I pasted is for my Per-configuration Intermediate Build Files Path. The value of my Per-configuration Build Products Path is:

$(BUILD_DIR)/$(CONFIGURATION)$(EFFECTIVE_PLATFORM_NAME)

E.g., build/AlphaDistribution-iphoneos. There is no dash in the default value but there is a dash in the path that is created.

Both my Per-configuration Intermediate Build Files Path and my Per-configuration Build Products Path are set to the default value. I.e., I did not customize them after the Xcode project wizard created them.

[vtim]

Is there a workaround for this?
IPA creation fails for some of my Build Configurations, but I have no clue as to why it fails.

[rmaxham]

I'm having the same issue. creating IPA: failed. no other information that I can see. this started when i cloned an existing ios app job on Jenkins 1.426. the original ios app job still builds and packages the IPA just fine. the new one fails with no other info.

[chrycheng]

I worked around it by creating the IPA myself. I added an Execute shell build step with the ff. command:

xcrun -sdk iphoneos PackageApplication -v build/AlphaDistribution-iphoneos/xxxx.app -o "$WORKSPACE/xxxx.ipa" --sign iPhone\ Distribution:\ xxxx --embed xxxx.mobileprovision

[franzbecker]

Had the problem, too, because my target name differed from the product name.
For example target ABC-iOS with the product name=ABC fails because the IPA packager searchs for a file called "ABC-iOS.app" but the build process generated a file called "ABC.app".

Fixed it by changing com.sic.bb.jenkins.plugins.sicci_for_xcode.callables.IpaPackagerCallable.invoke(File, VirtualChannel)
and deleting the lines:
if (!app.equals(this.targetName + AppDirectoryFilter.FILE_ENDING))
continue;

and replacing the line ipaFileContents.zip(new File(buildDir,this.fileName + IpaFileFilter.FILE_ENDING));
by
String fileName = app.substring(0, app.lastIndexOf('.'));
ipaFileContents.zip(new File(buildDir, fileName + IpaFileFilter.FILE_ENDING));

Which yields in one IPA file per .app file in the directory. I do a clean build anyway ;-)