Carthage not building

[abbeycode]

I cloned the repo, ran a carthage update, and then opened the workspace. The Commandant, Quick, Argo, Runes, and Box projects all show up red. I see the frameworks built in the Carthage/Build/Mac directory, but I don't see the projects anywhere in Carthage/Checkouts, nor do I see any but Argo in the Cartfile. It looks like the rest must be upstream dependencies, but I'm not sure what's going on. I installed the 0.7.4 release ("Time Desk").

What am I missing? I'm trying to get a pull request started.

[neilpa]

You should be running bootstrap not update when setting up a repo unless you're explicitly updating the dependencies. In this case you also need to specify --no-use-binaries to ensure all the workspace dependencies get checked out. Otherwise carthage will default to the binary framework releases.

[abbeycode]

Thanks, I reset the repo, then ran carthage bootstrap now, and then I got a build error when building Nimble:

Code Sign error: No code signing identities found: No valid signing identities (i.e. certificate and private key pair) matching the team ID “(null)” were found.
CodeSign error: code signing is required for product type 'Framework' in SDK 'iOS 8.3'

Should the CONTRIBUTING.md file have instructions for first-time setup, including using the bootstrap command?

[neilpa]

Should the CONTRIBUTING.md file have instructions for first-time setup, including using the bootstrap command?

Probably not because that's how it works when cloning any project that uses carthage to manage it's dependencies, including carthage itself. This is already covered in the README.

[neilpa]

As for the codesigning error, you can specify --platform mac when bootstrapping since you don't need to build for ios.

[abbeycode]

Okay, thanks, I'm still getting up to speed with it all. Now, having run carthage bootstrap --platform mac, I've still got 5 red projects. I did find their source - they're a few levels deep inside the carthage directory

[abbeycode]

Actually, looking more closely, I see (e.g. for Commandant) a framework in Carthage/Build/Mac, but I don't see any source checkout for it. When I do a Finder search for "Commandant", all I see are a couple of headers in the framework, and the Cartfile.private and Cartfile.resolved files.

[mdiep]

Commandant uses binaries releases. So a pre-built copy of the framework is downloaded directly from GitHub.

[abbeycode]

Right, but I'm trying to open the Carthage workspace, which refers to Commandant, and 4 other xcodeproj files that don't seem to be downloaded after I bootstrap.

[mdiep]

If you use the --no-use-binaries flag, then Carthage will download and checkout the source.

[abbeycode]

Ah ok, that did it. May I submit a pull request to add that full command to the CONTRIBUTING.md file?

carthage bootstrap --platform mac --no-use-binaries

[mdiep]

That would be great. 😄

[abbeycode]

@mdiep I submitted a pull request for that