Automated builds in monotouch

I am currently trying to implement a one-click build solution (without having to start the monodevelop IDE) for my monotouch projects, whe开发者_高级运维re i could specify provisioning profiles and code signing certificates. I searched popular build tools like nant, ant and maven, but none seems to support monotouch. Has anyone tried something similar ?

I've gotten it work with Jenkins (aka Hudson).

You basically setup a Jenkins server, and setup your Mac as a "slave" build server. (I used a JNLP slave).

From there you can run any command line you want in the build, so you merely have to run mdtool with some arguments, like so:

/Applications/MonoDevelop.app/Contents/MacOS/mdtool -v build "--configuration:Release|iPhone" "Path/To/YourSolution.sln"

One thing to worry about is that to sign an iOS app, the slave process must run under your user. So you can't really create a Mac daemon for it, you'll have to run the slave process in startup for your user and minimize it, which is kind of annoying.

You tried teamcity? Might be worth you having a look at this thread Buildserver for MonoTouch upon OS X?

Thx for your answers. However i don't need to use such heavy artillery in this case. Since i'm developping a single and small app, I ended up by creating 3 different Build configurations in my solution, because i found out that it is possible to configure different codesign identities and provisioning profiles for each one (Development, Ad-Hoc, AppleStore), in the monodevelop project options menu.

Then in the AppleStore/Ad-Hoc configuration, i added post build commands, so i could create the .ipa file automatically (basically create a "Payload" folder and copy the .app file into it, and then zip it into a .ipa file, along with the icon and itunesartwork files).

Finally i created a bash script that invokes mdtool with any of the configurations, so i can build and generate .ipa executables by just executing the script.