Command line "launch path not accessible"

Question

I recently found out that I can create Swift command line scripts.

I decided to see if I could build my Xamarin project using it.

Unfortunately I am getting the following error and I don't know how to fix it.

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'launch path not accessible'

Here is my script:

#!/usr/bin/env swift

import Foundation

print("Building Script")

let fileManager = NSFileManager.defaultManager()
let path = fileManager.currentDirectoryPath

func shell(launchPath: String, arguments: [String] = []) -> NSString? {

    let task = NSTask()
    task.launchPath = launchPath
    task.arguments = arguments

    let pipe = NSPipe()
    task.standardOutput = pipe
    task.launch()

    let data = pipe.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile()
    let output = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)

    return output
}

if let output = shell("/Applications/Xamarin\\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/mdtool", arguments: ["-v build", "\"--configuration:Beta|iPhone\"", "MyApp.iOS.sln"]) {
    print(output)
}

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I think the problem is that you actually want to execute the shell and have it execute the mdtool, rather than directly execute mdtool

Try passing "/bin/bash" as the launchpath, and then include the path to mdtool as part of the argument string.