Prerequisites:

• A mac that can run xcode or a VM that runs OS X
• Node.js 21

Steps:

1. run npm i in the project
2. run npx expo prebuild --platform ios to create an ios build
3. wait a little bit for it to finish

[!IMPORTANT] I have not tested this as I do not have a paid Apple Developer Account so you may need to edit some code.

1. just use Expo Application Services (EAS) to create up to 15 ios builds for free.

This does take a little longer and may run into more errors

• Download Xcode from the App Store on your Mac.

If you are on MacOS beta, then you need to download Xcode-beta from Apple's website

• Open the Xcode Project by clicking Open Existing Project

• if the file icon is not already selected, then do so

• Select HyStore in the file tab

• Choose Build Phases in the tabs

• Click + on the panel and select New Run Script Phase

• Go back to your terminal and run

sudo ln -s $(which node) /usr/local/bin/node

This creates a symlink to the default node location that xcode is looking for to your actual node location

• Then in the script, paste the following:

# Load nvm if it's not loaded
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
if [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ]; then
  source "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
fi

# Ensure Node is available
export NODE_BINARY=/usr/local/bin/node
echo "Node found at: $NODE_BINARY"

"$NODE_BINARY" -v

# Run NativeWind/Tailwind CSS build command
"$NODE_BINARY" "$PROJECT_DIR/../node_modules/tailwindcss/lib/cli.js" -i "$PROJECT_DIR/../global.css" -o "$PROJECT_DIR/../node_modules/.cache/nativewind/global.css"

# Continue with the React Native build script
"$NODE_BINARY" --print "require('path').dirname(require.resolve('react-native/package.json')) + '/scripts/react-native-xcode.sh'"

• Then At the top bar select product>archive and wait for the build to complete

• then it should popup with a menu if the build is successful and right click the build and click show in finder

• it should be a .xcarchive so right click and select show package contents and then select products>Applications

• Then right click and select New Folder and type Payload (caps senstitive) and press enter

• then drag HyStore into the Payload folder

• then right click and select Compress 'Payload' and wait

• then it should pop out a .zip. so please rename the package to a .ipa so it should be Payload.ipa from Payload.zip

• Enjoy!