iOS Question Command line compilation for B4i

[Alberto Iglesias]

Hello everyone,

Any one already set Jenkins or any other toll for Continuos Integration for B4i?

Have any tool available to compile and create .IPA automatically?


Thank you!


@Erel Any possibility to have one tool like B4ABuilder.exe?? for B4i?

Thanks

Alberto Iglesias

 

[Erel]

@Erel Any possibility to have one tool like B4ABuilder.exe?? for B4i?

Might be added in a future version. The building process is more complicated in B4i compared to B4A and B4J.

 

[Alberto Iglesias]

Ok, why not put on the same B4i.exe?

Like, if have parameters works like command line, if not works like IDE.

just an idea!

 

[LWGShane]

Might be added in a future version. The building process is more complicated in B4i compared to B4A and B4J.

In addition, I think license verification should be moved to the command line builders - this way we don't need to have the IDE installed to use the command line compilers; this would allow us to create cross-platform IDEs.

 

[Alberto Iglesias]

Now, I using AZURE PIPELINES to Continuos Integration and works perfectly, look:

Everytime when I commit my source code, the Pipeline do everything for me: Get the Code, Compile, Sign, push to our servers and you can also publish automatically to Stores.

But for now we can do just for Android....

Waiting angrily for B4iBuild.exe !!!

 

[Alberto Iglesias]

Might be added in a future version. The building process is more complicated in B4i compared to B4A and B4J.

Hello @Erel,

Until this feature is not done, what you recommend to automatic build? From MACOS Side? Do you have some automatic process for this?

 

[Erel]

You can use xcodebuild from the command line to build the project. As I wrote the building process is quite complicated and you will need to deal with setting the default keychain and signing the code. If Swift libraries are included then it is much more complicated.

 

[Alberto Iglesias]

@Erel do you have any minimum example to compile and create the .IPA from xcodebuild ?

Is very important thing to automatically compile when you want to put on Continuous integration, if you do that, is a very very improvement to all users, they don't need to worry about compile, just coding!

 

[Erel]

Sorry but a minimum example will not help. The process depends on all kinds of factors. This is currently not supported.

 

[LWGShane]

Sorry but a minimum example will not help. The process depends on all kinds of factors. This is currently not supported.

I'm assuming that the compilation is done by the local/hosted builders, right?

If they are then why not just create a CLI tool that replicates what the IDE does (sending data to the builders)?

 

[Erel]

I'm assuming that the compilation is done by the local/hosted builders, right?

True.

If they are then why not just create a CLI tool that replicates what the IDE does (sending data to the builders)?

Such a builder might be created in the future. I don't think that it will be used by many developers.

this way we don't need to have the IDE installed to use the command line compilers; this would allow us to create cross-platform IDEs.

Not really. There are many other much more complicated challenges that you need to solve if you want to develop a new IDE.

 

[Alberto Iglesias]

I thought in put the improvement on the same IDE, as others do. Like: C:> B4i.exe <complete path of b4i project> /release /configuration:xxxxx (and the rest get the default values of projet) if have this parameters, just not open the IDE and after this, close the IDE

 

[LWGShane]

Not really. There are many other much more complicated challenges that you need to solve if you want to develop a new IDE

The biggest hurdle would be licensing though that could be solved by having the compilers handle licensing rather than the IDEs. Another hurdle is the designer but there are various solutions I could see using.

 

[Alberto Iglesias]

True.


Such a builder might be created in the future. I don't think that it will be used by many developers.


Not really. Thhere are many other much more complicated challenges that you need to solve if you want to develop a new IDE.

@Erel,

Do you have any sample how we can compile via command line in xcode? because on compile logs is very difficult to understand

 

[Erel]

I don't have such an example as it is not a simple process.

because on compile logs is very difficult to understand

Which problem are you trying to solve?

 

[Alberto Iglesias]

I just need to make the continuos delivery works! for example when we commit/push the code to github, automatically the server start to build the apps, publish, etc. Is working fine with B4A because have the command line to do this, but nit for B4i