[flutter_tools] Provide guided message when iOS/macOS build fails due to low minimum version#188812
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… to too low minimum version Fixes flutter#187855
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This pull request introduces guided error messages when the iOS or macOS deployment target is too low for Xcode, parsing the minimum required version from build outputs and providing step-by-step upgrade instructions. The review feedback suggests refactoring the macOS build output parsing to process lines incrementally rather than buffering the entire stdout in memory. Additionally, the reviewer recommends using boolean flags to track deployment target issues and handling null or unparsed versions gracefully with fallback messages to ensure robustness against future Xcode error format changes.
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This pull request adds detection and guided error messages when the iOS or macOS deployment target is too low during the build process, along with corresponding tests. The review feedback requests adding /// documentation comments to the newly introduced private helper methods and fields in accordance with the repository style guide.
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I intentionally omitted instructions to update the macos/Podfile or ios/Podfile from the guided error message. While CocoaPods might require this step, we are actively migrating to Swift Package Manager (SPM). Adding CocoaPods-specific steps to the CLI error message could become obsolete and confusing. |
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Why true here? I assume what we wanna do is to compare the mini deployment target to the minimum that flutter supports?
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We are setting true here because this code only runs when processing errors from a failed xcodebuild run (via xcresult). If IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is in the error message, Xcode has already done the comparison, determined the target is too low, and failed the build. We aren't doing the comparison ourselves, we are just intercepting the Xcode error to display a helpful, guided message to the user with steps to fix it in the Xcode UI.
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Can you give an example of the actual error message?
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macOS: error: The macOS deployment target 'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET' is set to 10.11, but the range of supported deployment target versions is is 12.0 to 27.0.x. (in target 'Runner' from project 'Runner')
iOS: error: The iOS deployment target 'IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET' is set to 13.0, but the range of supported deployment target versions is 15.0 to 27.0.x.
/Users/okorohelijah/development/reproductions/repro_187855/ios/Runner.xcodeproj
Instead of xcode UI, we can also tell the developer to update the project.pbxproj but that can be massive, and highly sensitive to syntax errors
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Let's check for sentence ("the ... deployment target ... is set to ..., but the range of supported deployment target version is ...")
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This PR provides clear, actionable guided messages when Xcode builds fail because the target deployment version is set too low.
Fixes #187855
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