title: Xamarin Forms IPA generation on Jenkins
body: <p>I'm having some trouble to generate an IPA for my Xamarin Forms iOS project on Jenkins. I follow the documentation (<a href="http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/ci/jenkins_walkthrough/" rel="nofollow">http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/ci/jenkins_walkthrough/</a>) and post a question on the xamarin forums for my problem, but it's really difficult to have an answer there so i'll try here.</p>
  
  <p>I'm able to build the application with mdtool but there isn't any IPA file in my project after the end of Jenkins' job.</p>
  
  <p>I see some discussion on the forum that tell to use the archive method instead of the build for mdtool. But that didn't change anything either.</p>
  
  <p>I also try to use xcrun to create the IPA file after the application build, but i have that kind of error :</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>error: Unable to copy application 'iOS/bin/iPhone/Release/Application.iOS.app/' into '/var/folders/v2/gnnclzrd2g98zqc89qn204km00007h/T/VXEBXe7WNV/Payload'</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>There's not a lot of explanation on how the IPA is generated on the documentation so i'd like to have a clarification on that.</p>
  
  <p>Is anyone manage to create an IPA in Jenkins for their iOS Xamarin Forms project ? 
  If so how do you do it ? I could give you more information about the Jenkins' job i use, ... if necessary.</p>
  
  <p>Regards</p>