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How do I run a Cocoa app after building it from the command line with xcodebuild?

I'm building a Mac OS X Cocoa application from the command line using an Xcode project like this:

xcodebuild -scheme MyApp -configuration Debug

How do I run it once it's done building?

Solution

  • I wrote a script to do this:

    #!/bin/bash

x=$( xcodebuild -showBuildSettings -project MyApp.xcodeproj | grep ' BUILD_DIR =' | sed -e 's/.*= *//' )

DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=$x/Debug DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$x/Debug $x/Debug/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp

    (I figured this out by running the application from Xcode and then ps -wwE -p on the process to see its environment variables.)