Controlling build location with xcodebuild command line tool

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How can a build script figure where xcodebuild places the resulting application when calling xcodebuild -scheme MyScheme archive ?

I understand that you can control the location via Xcode preferences but I would actually like to be able to specify this in the command line for my build script while keeping the default build location during development.

You can control the root location of other xcodebuild build artifacts with the argument DSTROOT="preferred/result/directory", but that doesn't work with xcodebuild archive. I am trying to find out to control the same thing and am not having any luck. I have looked here: developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/DeveloperTools/… ... but it hasn't helped, even though it seems like a good place for such info. — Br.Bill
– Br.Bill, Commented Dec 21, 2011 at 1:08

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:11:25Z

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I have had minor luck with the following approaches:

Fiddle with the environment variable BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR. I remember this was somewhat infuriating.
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I used the method outlined here, and did not fall too deeply into madness.

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