Request: enable embedding CLI app within (Mac) application

[MariusDeReus]

Maybe not common for iOS, but It happens quite often that a macOS app embeds a command line application to execute certain tasks.
For example (in our case) a CLI app that is able to restart the main application.

'Before Tuist' these are the steps to achieve this:

• Configure a separate build target for the CLI,
• Make the main app target depend on the CLI target
• And then lastly add a copy build step that copies the CLI into the main app bundle

The problem is that this is currently not possible to configure in Tuist manifests, which means that we cannot convert our project to be build by Tuist.
When you add a CLI target as dependency for the main app target it results in this error when trying to generate the project:
Target <main app> has a dependency with target <CLI target> of type command line tool for platform 'macOS' which is invalid or not supported yet.

[serejahh]

I've opened a PR with the fix. The only thing you need is to implement a copy phase using a custom script. You can use TARGET_BUILD_DIR variable to find the location of the launcher

[fortmarek]

Hey @serejahh 👋

Thanks a lot for fixing this. As this issue was related to a bounty, we want to send you 50$ as a thank you for your work 🙏

You can contact me at marekfort@me.com or send us a DM on Twitter or Mastodon.