At the moment, Apple provides the ability to collect .xcarchive / .ipa by means of XCode, in particular xcodebuild.

But for this method, you need to generate an XCode project using CMake. Unfortunately, the XCode generator is slower in terms of speed than the Ninja generator in compilation, so I would like to build an app for the App Store without XCode's participation, with the option to select a CMake generator.

For example, next code generate .xcarchive, and i can convert it to .ipa, if needed

xcodebuild archive -project app.xcodeproj -scheme MyApp -config Release -destination generic/platform=iOS

So if use only CMake build with any generator, as output i gave .app, and i dont found any way to convert it to .xcarchive.

Is there a way to convert .app to .xcarchive? Or the ability to generate .xcarchive using CMake?