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jbro91837
jbro91837

Reputation: 233

Monotouch (mtouch) command line error MT0007 - "The root assembly does not exist"

We are trying to use the MonoTouch mtouch command-line to run our app in the simulator. We have a solution that has 3 projects in it, a library, a frontend app, and a test project. When we use mtouch --installsim on the frontend app, everything works fine. However, when we run mtouch --installsim or mtouch --debugsim on the test project, we get this error:

error MT0007: The root assembly '--installsim=/Users/myuser/root4/trunk/App/UnifiedTests/bin/iPhoneSimulator/Debug/UnifiedTests.app' does not exist

The above app builds and runs in the simulator fine from MonoDevelop, but from the command line, it doesn't work. Here is the exact command line input:

/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/bin/mtouch --debugsim=/Users/myuser/root4/trunk/App/UnifiedTests/bin/iPhoneSimulator/Debug/UnifiedTests.app --stdout=/Users/myuser/output --stderr=/Users/myuser/error

/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/bin/mtouch --installsim=/Users/myuser/root4/trunk/App/UnifiedTests/bin/iPhoneSimulator/Debug/UnifiedTests.app --stdout=/Users/myuser/output --stderr=/Users/myuser/error

Any ideas on why this doesn't work? There don't seem to be any significant differences between the tests app and the main app.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 666

Answers (1)

poupou
poupou

Reputation: 43553

That's because there is is no --installsim options in mtouch (and the unknown command is suspected to be an assembly name).

What's available are --launchsim and --debugsim and are both described here.

Try doing mtouch --help to see every options available or read the man page online.

Upvotes: 2

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