Simulators don’t appear on the list

[ychie]

Starting in Xcode 14, when you create a multiplatform app project, Xcode creates a single app target with destinations for each platform you want to support: iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac.

In the .nvim/settings.json i see that xcodebuild recognizes target's platform as macOS only, and so in the 'select device' popup i only see the macOS variant. Can this be adjusted to display iOS device variants also?

[FelixLisczyk]

The issue you're experiencing is due to a known bug with the xcodebuild -showdestinations command. This command won't display simulator destinations unless your Xcode project has at least one Swift Package dependency. The xcodebuild.nvim plugin relies on this command to list available devices for your project. To resolve this issue, please try the following steps:

1. Open your project in Xcode and add a Swift Package dependency.
2. Delete the project's derived data folder.
3. Delete the .nvim/xcodebuild subfolder in your project.
4. Open the project in Neovim and run the XcodebuildSetup command again.

[ychie]

@FelixLisczyk Thanks a lot for support! Added one package and got my iOS targets.

[wojciech-kulik]

I pinned this issue for others, because it seems to be a common problem.

[mokkun]

I had a slightly different issue. My project has Swift Package dependencies, but I'd still get an empty device list.
So I went ahead and typed xcodebuild -showdestinations into a terminal, and got the following error:

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

Turns out this issue happens when CommandLineTools are installed after Xcode. 🤷
I easily fixed it by running sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer and was able to see the device list on nvim.

[nikagar4]

I had a slightly different issue. My project has Swift Package dependencies, but I'd still get an empty device list. So I went ahead and typed xcodebuild -showdestinations into a terminal, and got the following error:

xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance

Turns out this issue happens when CommandLineTools are installed after Xcode. 🤷 I easily fixed it by running sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer and was able to see the device list on nvim.

That is not a bug with xcodebuild.nvim but maybe we can add this step in readme for beginners? @wojciech-kulik