bug: ionic build ios not working on Mac OS 10.11

[stefankp]

Type: bug

Platform: ios 9 webview

ionic build ios does not work anymore, therefore ionic run ios and ionic emulate ios also don't work, meaning I cannot run the app through the ionic CLI. The command runs for a few seconds and then exits without any logs or error messages.

ionic build android still works fine. Building and deploying the app to the simulator or phone works through Xcode.

I am on Mac OS 10.11.1, with Xcode 7 and a complete fresh ionic install.

[mpm]

I have the same issue :D according to the cordova docs, the build task runs two commands, prepare and compile. The one that breaks (returns without any error message) is

ionic prepare ios

while

ionic compile ios

compiles the stuff that is there (without prepare, the plugins are missing though). I'm trying to understand what the prepare command is doing and it must be somewhere in this repository IMHO, but I couldn't locate it yet.

[mpm]

@stefankp and me tracked it down to this line in the xcode npm package. I don't fully understand the fork magic going on there, but the worker object never receives the message message (or whatever is this).

Therefore it can never trigger the error neither the end message, which would finally execute the function in cb (and this function will resolve a promise that resolves a ton of other promises that are currently preventing the ionic prepare build command from succeeding.

So, if anybody knows a bit more about the fork magic going in on the xcode package, please explain where to dig down- where is the message event triggered?

PS:
I can build the same project where we spotted the error on a different machine, running the same xcode version but OS X 10.10.5. The problem seems to occur under OS X 10.11.0 and 10.11.1.

[mpm]

Alright, we digged down right to the bottom and the short version is:

This issue got fixed in the node-xcode package.

Ionic depends on xcode 0.6.7, so this should be bumped to 0.8.0 (but the 0.8.0 version we got earlier didn't contain this patch yet).

Anyway, everybody having the same issue, just open parseJob.js in your local npm repository and delete the process.exit() in Line 12.

We will post more helpful and proper instructions after we recovered from this exhausting investigation.

(Related: alunny/node-xcode#61).

[mhartington]

This issue was moved to ionic-team/ionic-cli#593