[TIMOB-6583] iOS: Renaming a project causes "xcodebuild error. directory contains 2 projects"

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	Low
Status	Open
Resolution	Unresolved
Affected Version/s	Release 1.8.0.1
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	iOS
Labels	cb-tooling, engSchedule, tbs-1.8.2
Reporter	Ingo Muschenetz
Assignee	Chris Barber
Created	2011-12-12T15:50:52.000+0000
Updated	2020-02-05T05:31:31.000+0000

Description

Renaming a mobile application can result in the following error when attempting to build:

[ERROR] xcodebuild: error: The directory /Users/zpapp/Titanium
Workspace/babyfaces/build/iphone contains 2 projects, including multiple
projects with the current extension (.xcodeproj). Specify the project to
use with the -project option.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/Users/zpapp/Library/Application
Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.8.0.1.v20111123113857-babyfaces/iphone/builder.py",
line 1413, in main
     execute_xcode("iphoneos%s" % iphone_version,args,False)
   File "/Users/zpapp/Library/Application
Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.8.0.1.v20111123113857-babyfaces/iphone/builder.py",
line 1175, in execute_xcode
     output = run.run(args,False,False,o)
   File "/Users/zpapp/Library/Application
Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.8.0.1.v20111123113857-babyfaces/iphone/run.py",
line 39, in run
     sys.exit(rc)
SystemExit: 78

Steven suggests passing the explicit project on the command-line would fix this.

Comments

Shannon Hicks 2012-01-24

This problem has been around for a long time. Here's the scenario: You have a project named "MyProject" In tiapp.xml, you have "My Project" Do a debug/run build of the app in the Simulator Do a Distribut build, and you get this error:

   [INFO] Performing clean build
   [ERROR] xcodebuild: error: The directory /path/to/project/MyProject/build/iphone contains 2 projects, including multiple projects with the current extension (.xcodeproj). Specify the project to use with the -project option.
   [ERROR] 
   [ERROR] Error: Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/Users/shan/Library/Application Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.8.0.1/iphone/builder.py", line 1482, in main
       execute_xcode("iphoneos%s" % iphone_version,args,False)
     File "/Users/shan/Library/Application Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.8.0.1/iphone/builder.py", line 1180, in execute_xcode
       output = run.run(args,False,False,o)
     File "/Users/shan/Library/Application Support/Titanium/mobilesdk/osx/1.8.0.1/iphone/run.py", line 39, in run
       sys.exit(rc)
   SystemExit: 78

In the build/iPhone directory, there are two xcodeproj files (and similarly named supporting files): MyProject.xcodeproj My Project.xcodeproj Workaround: Do a Project > Clean every time you want to switch between debug/run and Distribute builds. Very annoying.

Ingo Muschenetz 2012-01-27

Bump. We have run into this issue a lot of times recently.

Fokke Zandbergen 2014-05-14

Please fix this. It's annoying and easy to fix. The CLI just needs to pass the current project name to xcodebuild as indicated by the error:

   [ERROR] xcodebuild: error: The directory /Users/zandbergen/dev/apps/mgl/build/appify/build/iphone contains 2 projects, including multiple projects with the current extension (.xcodeproj). Specify the project to use with the -project option.

Chris Barber 2016-08-22

Confirmed, this is still an issue with Titanium SDK 6.1.0. For a workaround, clean the project and rebuild.
Joe 2019-10-16

Bump. This still happens in 8.0.2.GA thankfully google found this issue to help figure out the problem. How about improving/modifying the error message "Clean your project and try again" as a work around.

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