On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Markian Hlynka wrote:
What are the features of the xcode build system that you don't get with an "External Build System"? Or, where do I find out? Preferable other than the help menu, since I don't have Tiger installed yet...
You get editing, code completion, indexing, navigation, building. You should get build error reporting that navigates to source, and navigation to headers. You probably get code completion and even class diagrams if your targets are configured correctly. You ought to get debugging as long as your makefiles are set up to generate symbolized
You will not get build settings in the inspector, build configurations, configuration files, build rules, search paths, dependency checking, compiler flags, Rez, plists, Zero Link, Fix and Continue, dead-code stripping, .exp files, etc.
Basically anything that requires you to set a setting in the Target inspector relies on Xcode's native build system. If you're using autoconf/makefiles you have to do all that yourself in the makefiles.
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