nrbrook/makexcodepluginswork

A script to make plugins work in Xcode 8

What is this?

This is a bash script that can unsign the Xcode binary and update the Xcode compatibility UUID in plugins.

Xcode disabled plugins in Xcode 8 in favour of its extensions API. Unfortunately this is very limited at this point. Unsigning Xcode allows plugins to run again.

Also, each version of Xcode has it's own UUID which needs to be listed inside the plugin to ensure compatibility. It seems lots of plugins work just fine with Xcode 8, but authors are unlikely to update them with the new UUID as Xcode stops them loading. This script can also add in that UUID.

Use at your own risk. Although a copy of the binary is left inside your Xcode.app at Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode.signed, you are using this at your own risk. I've tested it, it works for me. Your results may vary.

Uses the unsign project at https://github.com/steakknife/unsign

This doesn't fix the problem long term! If you like plugins, Be sure to file a radar at https://bugreport.apple.com/ detailing which ones, and hopefully Apple will add the necessary APIs to its extension capability in future.

Usage

$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nrbrook/MakeXcodePluginsWork/master/makeXcodePluginsWork
$ chmod +x makeXcodePluginsWork
$ ./makeXcodePluginsWork

makexcodepluginswork's Issues

syntax error near unexpected token `<'

Environment:

macOS Sierra 10.12.1
Xcode 8.1
Plugin path: ~/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins
Plugin list:

Alcatraz.xcplugin                 BBUDebuggerTuckAway.xcplugin      FuzzyAutocomplete.xcplugin        JKBlockCommenter.xcplugin         SCXcodeSwitchExpander.xcplugin
Auto-Importer.xcplugin            ClangFormat.xcplugin              GitDiff.xcplugin                  KZLinkedConsole.xcplugin          VVDocumenter-Xcode.xcplugin
AutoHighlightSymbol.xcplugin      DerivedData Exterminator.xcplugin HOStringSense.xcplugin            SCXcodeMinimap.xcplugin           XToDo.xcplugin

Input & Output

$ sudo sh makeXcodePluginsWork

makeXcodePluginsWork: line 99: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
makeXcodePluginsWork: line 99: `					done < <(find "$1" -name "*.xcplugin" -maxdepth 1 -print0)'

Please let me know if I missed something. Thanks in advance.

It only finds one plugin

I have lots of plugins installed, and this script can find them all before I update to latest commit.
Now it can only find one plugin.

1) /Users/Nelson/Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Plug-ins/Alcatraz.xcplugin
2) Back
3) Quit

Support plugins in another directory

Some plugins are located at ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Plug-ins/, could you please support this directory too?

Thank you!

Thank you Nick, this is awesome work!

-Tarek

[Feature Request] Update all plugins

Current

It lists all plugins and asks user to choose which plugin to upgrade.

Request

Besides listing plugins, it also provides an option so that user can upgrade all listed plugins.

Xcode 9 support

I'm trying to use the Xcode 9 beta 3 and it doesn't seem to work. I run the script like I usually do for Xcode 8 but the plugins are not loaded.

Can't upgrade plugin with space in name

It can't recognize plugin correctly if the plugin's name contains white space.