Determine Xcode derived data location from command line

Question

Is there a way to determine from the command line what the location of your derived data folder is after building with xcodebuild?

For example, after running xcodebuild:

xcodebuild -project projectname -target targetname

I want to be able to find out which folder the app is in. I would like to do this without changing the output path with CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR or within the project settings.

Any ideas?

Martin R · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 20:15:32Z

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xcodebuild -project myapp.xcodeproj -showBuildSettings

prints all build settings and values, in particular the folder where the app is build:

BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR = /path/to/myapp/DerivedData/myapp/Build/Products/Release

answered Dec 10, 2012 at 20:15

Martin R

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Martin R Over a year ago

There was a similar question shortly after yours: stackoverflow.com/questions/13826375/…, perhaps that is also of interest.

syvex Over a year ago

I got what I wanted with some grepping like this:

xcodebuild -project projectname -target targetname -showBuildSettings | grep -m 1 "CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR" | grep -oEi "\/.*"

kubbing Over a year ago

unfortunately the path differs in the random postfix :/. I have no idea why… Any ideas?

celticminstrel Over a year ago

If you mean "Release" at the end, add -configuration Debug or the like to control that.

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