How deploy a OSX or IOS Delphi project from the Command line?

delphi, delphi-xe4

Solution

To deploy your application to a remote location , you must use the paclient.exe (Platform Assistant Client Application) tool.

In order to get the passed parameters Build and Run you project from RAD Studio and then check the `Build` tab of the message windows of the IDE.

Check the next image for a OSX Application using a profile called `Local`

From here you can extract all the parameters passed to the paclient.exe

- Delete in the host the previous files (is exists)

c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe --Clean="Project7.app,C:\Users\RRUZ\Desktop\Test Deploy_@emb_.tmp"

the `_@emb_.tmp` file is a temp file created by the ide that contains all the files to deploy in this case the content is like so

Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\Project7.rsm
Project7.app\Contents\Entitlements.plist
Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\libcgunwind.1.0.dylib
Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\Project7
Project7.app\Contents\Resources\Project7.icns

- Copy the Info.plist (contains settup info the the .app like the icon used and the version) file to the Host

c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7.info.plist,Project7.app\Contents\,1,Info.plist" Local

- Copy the `libcgunwind.1.0.dylib` file (library) to the host

c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe --put="c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\Redist\osx32\libcgunwind.1.0.dylib,Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\,1,libcgunwind.1.0.dylib" Local

- Copy the bundler to the host

c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7,Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\,1,Project7" Local

- Copy the Remote debug symbols file to the Host

c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7.rsm,Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\,1,Project7.rsm" Local

- Copy the project icon to the Host

c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe --put="c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\delphi_PROJECTICNS.icns,Project7.app\Contents\Resources\,1,Project7.icns" Local

- Copy the Entitlements.plist file to the Host

c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7.entitlements,Project7.app\Contents\,1,Entitlements.plist" Local

Final script

Finally you can put all this in a script file like so

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\11.0\bin\rsvars.bat"
MSBuild Project7.dproj 
"c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe" --Clean="Project7.app,C:\Users\RRUZ\Desktop\Test Deploy\files.txt"  
"c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe" --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7.info.plist,Project7.app\Contents\,1,Info.plist" Local 
"c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe" --put="c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\Redist\osx32\libcgunwind.1.0.dylib,Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\,1,libcgunwind.1.0.dylib" Local 
"c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe" --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7,Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\,1,Project7" Local 
"c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe" --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7.rsm,Project7.app\Contents\MacOS\,1,Project7.rsm" Local
"c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe" --put="c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\delphi_PROJECTICNS.icns,Project7.app\Contents\Resources\,1,Project7.icns" Local 
"c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\bin\paclient.exe" --put="OSX32\Debug\Project7.entitlements,Project7.app\Contents\,1,Entitlements.plist" Local 

Note : Remember create a file with the file names of all the files to deploy , in this sample script is called `files.txt`, this file is use by the paclient to cleanup previus deployed files.

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