[Feature Request] Set XCode project settings from buildConfig JSON

[l3ender]

The command cordova platform add ios generates an XCode workspace (if it doesn't exist), but the workspace won't have settings that are configured in a build.json.

For example, I run the following commands:

cordova platform add ios
cordova run ios --buildConfig build.json

Here is my build.json:

"ios": {
    "debug": {
      ...
      "buildFlag": [
        "-UseModernBuildSystem=0",
        "ALWAYS_EMBED_SWIFT_STANDARD_LIBRARIES=YES"
      ]
    }
}

This command allows you to run the iOS app on device/simulator, and it will correctly build/compile based on properties in the buildConfig file. If I now use XCode to open the workspace that was generated by cordova platform add ios, the workspace that does not have the same workspace settings configured (in my scenario, ALWAYS_EMBED_SWIFT_STANDARD_LIBRARIES is not configured). Any settings will need to be manually configured in XCode if I want to open the project in XCode and run the app from there.

I think expected behavior would be that if I run the app from the Cordova CLI OR have the CLI generate an XCode workspace and run the app from there, the app should react the same.

[janpio]

build.json is a build configuration file, not a project configuration file. It is meant to influence the execution of a build by the Cordova CLI, not the project creation.

That being said, this might be an interesting idea that might be worth looking into.

[godexsoft]

The real question is why is there debug and release sections in the json.build but only either one makes it to BOTH debug/release sections in the xcode project depending on the --debug/--release switch in cordova CLI. it does not make too much sense. A much better way would be to populate xcode project with both debug and release profiles and then just compile/build the correct version depending on the cli switch.

Is there anything i'm missing? maybe i did not understand how to use it correctly?

[janpio]

@godexsoft You are definitely in the wrong issue - please create a new one for your problem - from a first reading it might be worth looking into what you describe, but not here in @l3ender 's unrelated issue. Thanks!

[godexsoft]

@godexsoft You are definitely in the wrong issue - please create a new one for your problem - from a first reading it might be worth looking into what you describe, but not here in @l3ender 's unrelated issue. Thanks!

seemed like a related issue to me. created a new one just now: #507 Thanks

[l3ender]

Whoops! Didn't mean to close.

[janpio]

@l3ender What do you think about my response? Does this make sense to you?

[l3ender]

@janpio Yes, it makes sense. So it seems like this makes sense as a feature request?

[janpio]

Yes, let's track this as a possible enhancement. Someone will have to think through all the implications this might have.