00mjk / xcode-universal-binary

Shell script to build a universal library for device and simulator

What it does

Builds an iphoneos (Device) and iphonesimulator (Simulator) binary using xcodebuild (comes with Xcode). The two binaries get merged afterwards using lipo. It also copies eventually existing header files in the result directory.

Usage

1. Do git clone [email protected]:MattesGroeger/xcode-universal-binary.git wherever you want to have the shell script reside.
2. Navigate to the repository cd xcode-universal-binary.
3. Grant executable rights: chmod a+x universal_binary.sh.
4. Add the universal_binary.sh to your PATH (e.g. in .bash_profile).
5. Navigate to the project you want to create a universal binary of.
6. Call universal_binary.sh {target} {lib.a} where you have to replace {target} with the Xcode target and {lib.a} with the target library name.

Hint

This version only creates the Release configurations.

Credits

Thanks to Eonil who did the basic work in this stackoverflow post.