Building xcarchive and ipa in the same job in Jenkins

Question

I am working on Jenkins CI on iMAC. I have successfully generated .xcarchive and .ipa files in separate jobs in Jenkins. what i want to know is can we generate both the files within the same job.? is it possible to run a single job for the creation of both the files.?

Answer 1

You are not giving any details about your job configuration. Are you building with some plugin? Are you using command line?

Without more information, all I can say is: use 2 build steps to get 2 artifacts

Edit after OP comment:
Since you are using Xcode plugin, just set up 2 builds steps, one for IPA on for .xcarchive.

In your jobs Configuration, under Build section (where I assume you already have 1 instance of Xcode build configured), scroll down till you see Add Build Step button, click it and select Xcode build from there again.

Configure your second instance of Xcode build, and just change the whether it's IPA or not, and change the Build output directory to something that won't conflict with the first instance. Then modify your Archive artifacts post-build action to pick up both artifacts.

This will of course double the build time.