should be dynamically loading iPhoneSimulatorRemoteClient framework

[thehesiod]

or else the app is tied to the version of xcode you compiled it with

you should be getting this from DEVELOPER_DIR environment variable or xcode-select -print-path

[thehesiod]

btw, work-around is setting:

export DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks:/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/OtherFramework

but it would be nice it it behaved nicely with the existing xcode-select/DEVELOPER_DIR mechanism

[shazron]

Awesome - thanks, I'll try to get to this soon, either that if you want to send a pull request that will be great as well

[thehesiod]

Unfortunately I'm not exactly sure how to dynamically load objective C framework APIs yet. Would take me at least a couple days research (If I get some time off I'll try, also I'm a github newb, more of a perforce person) btw, here's what I'm currently using in my bash build scripts after manually setting DEVELOPER_DIR based on the xcode selected:

export DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=${DEVELOPER_DIR}/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks:$(dirname "${DEVELOPER_DIR}")/OtherFrameworks

Also, if you want an even BETTER solution you can enumerate the versions of xcode installed and list ALL the available simulators/sdks for ALL xcode apps installed and then enumerate through all the available frameworks :)
(see below python script) Actually, what I would do is re-write ios-sim in python using ctypes, it would be cooler and be even better for my workflows, hehe :)

def findXCodeVersions(verbose=False):
    plist = plistlib.readPlistFromString(runCMD("system_profiler", ["-xml", "SPDeveloperToolsDataType"], verbose=verbose))[0]
    result = { }
    for item in plist["_items"]:
        version = item["spdevtools_version"].split(" ")[0]
        app_path = dev_path = item["spdevtools_path"]
        if not dev_path.endswith("Developer"): dev_path += "/Contents/Developer"

        sdks = item["spdevtools_sdks"]
        iphonesdks = osxsdks = []

        if "spiphoneos_sdks" in sdks:
            iphonesdks = list(sdks["spiphoneos_sdks"].keys())
        elif "spios_sdks" in sdks:
            iphonesdks = list(sdks["spios_sdks"].keys())

        if "spmacosx_sdks" in sdks:
            osxsdks = list(sdks["spmacosx_sdks"].keys())
        elif "sposx_sdks" in sdks:
            osxsdks = list(sdks["sposx_sdks"].keys())

        result[version] = { "apppath" : app_path, "devpath" : dev_path, "iossdks" : iphonesdks, "osxsdks" : osxsdks }

    return result

Thanks for the quick response btw!

[fpotter]

FWIW, we had this same issue come up in xctool.

Here's how we solved it --
https://github.com/facebook/xctool/blob/master/xctool/xctool/main.m#L25

[shazron]

With Xcode 5.1, iPhoneSimulatorRemoteClient has been removed, so ios-sim is using DVTiPhoneSimulatorRemoteClient now with v1.9.0