Why is xcodebuild not building dependencies when testing?

Question

When I run xcodebuild, it crashes. It seems that it is not compiling the test target's dependency, which is the main app. The test target is called NiknikTests, while the app's target is called WTATest3.

Ld build/UninstalledProducts/NiknikTests.xctest/NiknikTests normal i386
    cd "/Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build NikNik"
    export IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=7.1
    export PATH="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/Users/ethen/Desktop/sbt/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/clang -arch i386 -bundle -isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator7.1.sdk -L/Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/build/Release-iphonesimulator -L/Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/NiknikTests/TestLibraries/include/lib -F/Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/build/Release-iphonesimulator -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator7.1.sdk/Developer/Library/Frameworks -F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks -filelist /Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/build/NikNik.build/Release-iphonesimulator/NiknikTests.build/Objects-normal/i386/NiknikTests.LinkFileList -bundle_loader /Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/build/Release-iphonesimulator/Niknik.app/Niknik -Xlinker -objc_abi_version -Xlinker 2 -force_load /Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/NiknikTests/TestLibraries/include/lib/libOCMock.a -ObjC -fobjc-arc -fobjc-link-runtime -Xlinker -no_implicit_dylibs -mios-simulator-version-min=7.1 -framework UIKit -framework Foundation -Xlinker -dependency_info -Xlinker /Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/build/NikNik.build/Release-iphonesimulator/NiknikTests.build/Objects-normal/i386/NiknikTests_dependency_info.dat -o /Users/ethen/.jenkins/workspace/Build\ NikNik/build/UninstalledProducts/NiknikTests.xctest/NiknikTests
Undefined symbols for architecture i386:
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NNBoundaryLineModel", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in NNBoundaryLineModelTests.o
     (maybe you meant: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NNBoundaryLineModelTests)
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NNConstant", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in NNConstantTests.o
     (maybe you meant: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NNConstantTests)
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NNPlayerModel", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in NNPlayerModelTests.o
     (maybe you meant: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NNPlayerModelTests)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture i386
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Here is my xcodebuild command:

xcodebuild \
-target NiknikTests \
-arch i386 \
-configuration “Debug” \
-sdk iphonesimulator \
TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY="2" \
ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO \
clean install

When I run the tests from inside of Xcode, it works just fine.

EDIT: This is showing the target dependency of NiknikTests.

Why is it not building the target dependency?

Answer 1

I looks like it is not building the target dependency because of some issues with arch i386. In order to fix this I have two suggestions, 1) Delete the two arch statements from the xcodebuild command:

xcodebuild \
-target NiknikTests \
-configuration “Debug” \
-sdk iphonesimulator \
TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY="2" \
clean install

It should automatically choose the correct architecture for the program. However, if that does not work, 2) Try replacing "-arch i386 \" with "ARCHS=i386 \" IE

xcodebuild \
-target NiknikTests \
ARCHS=i386 \
-configuration “Debug” \
-sdk iphonesimulator \
TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY="2" \
ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO \
clean install

Answer 2

Did you try turning on build implicit dependencies under your build scheme ?

I had similar issues with Cocoapods and running unit tests