apache/cordova-ios

xcodebuild was not found. After upgrading to Cordova 7.0.1 from Cordova 6.1.0

AdrianTeamMatrix opened this issue · 3 comments

AdrianTeamMatrix commented

Issue Type

  • Bug Report
  • Feature Request
  • Support Question

Description

After upgrading to Cordova 7.0.1 from Cordova 6.1.0 and building with ionic cordova build ios I get the error

xcodebuild was not found. Please install version 11.0.0 or greater from App Store.

I even tried with ionic cordova build ios -- --buildFlag="-UseModernBuildSystem=0" same error

xcodebuild was not found. Please install version 11.0.0 or greater from App Store
CordovaError: xcodebuild was not found. Please install version 11.0.0 or greater from App Store
at checkTool (C:......\node_modules\cordova-ios\lib\check_reqs.js:95:31)
at Object.module.exports.run.module.exports.check_xcodebuild (C:......\node_modules\cordova-ios\lib\check_reqs.js:44:12)
at Api.build (C:......\node_modules\cordova-ios\lib\Api.js:558:27)
at C:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\src\cordova\compile.js:38:30
at C:\Users...\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\src\util\promise-util.js:28:24
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

Information

Ionic:

Ionic CLI : 5.4.16
Ionic Framework : ionic-angular 3.9.2
@ionic/app-scripts : 3.2.4

Cordova:

Cordova CLI : 11.0.0
Cordova Platforms : android 11.0.0, ios 7.0.1
Cordova Plugins : cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard 2.2.0, cordova-plugin-ionic-webview 5.0.0, cordova-plugin-ionic 5.5.3, (and 21 other plugins)

Utility:

cordova-res : not installed
native-run : 1.7.1

System:

NodeJS : v16.20.2 (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe)
npm : 8.19.4
OS : Windows 10

Command or Code

ionic cordova build ios
ionic cordova build ios -- --buildFlag="-UseModernBuildSystem=0"

Environment, Platform, Device

Windows 11

Version information

Checklist

  • I searched for already existing GitHub issues about this
  • I updated all Cordova tooling to their most recent version
  • I included all the necessary information above
breautek commented

Mac OS with XCode is required to build ios apps.

Windows isn't supported.

AdrianTeamMatrix commented

Thanks but I am using Ionic framework that will build for Android and iOS. Which did work before the upgrade

breautek commented

With all due respect, this was always a requirement. Apple does not provide build tools for any operating system other than Mac OS. Apache Cordova has never supported building iOS on windows.

If the ionic framework allowed you to build iOS projects on Windows and it worked, then they were doing something hacky and potentially against Apple's terms of service. But even Ionic's cordova legacy and their newer capacitor project path both claims that XCode is required, which is only avialable on MacOS.