Questions about target build settings
Questions about target build settings
- Subject: Questions about target build settings
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:29:12 +0100
Hej,
I'm trying to optimize the process of compiling prefix headers. While
looking through our build settings I ended up with a couple of
questions and feature requests:
Question 1)
Why is it not possible to find the Xcode documentation in HTML format
on developer.apple.com? I don't like the integrated help viewer thingie
found in Xcode - perhaps out of an aversion for custom
HTML-help-document-viewers caused by exposure to Help Viewer.
Question 2)
> Xcode provides a number of predefined collections, including a set of
> commonly used settings.
Does the "Common Settings" smart group have anything to do with the
build settings for the inspected target, in the way that the "Custom
Settings" smart group do? Which leads to;
Question 3)
> The Customized Settings collection shows all of the build settings
> that have been explicitly set in the target. This does not include
> default settings provided by Xcode
Is there any way to view all build settings that apply to a particular
target? I would like to be able to have a graphical representation of
what will eventually be passed to the compiler.
Feature request 1)
> Build settings can be defined in other places in addition to a
> targetfor example, you can define a build setting in a build style.
> This flexibility lets you change build settings quickly without having
> to create a new target.
This implies that the build settings set in a build style should be
ones that you would like to be able to toggle for the targets in your
project. We use build styles like this, but we also use it to set
default values for our targets, something it's not really suited to do
as it overrides target settings, and as they apply to all targets.
This has been requested in the past, but I would just like to chime in:
It would be extremely useful to have "target groups" where you could
set default build settings for a group of targets. You would then only
have to set target specific build settings in the target itself. Our
project have about 150 targets, it takes a lot of time to keep them
"synchronized" as we:
- Can't edit more than one target at a time, even for shared build
settings
- Have to set build settings individually on a per target basis.
In fact, it would be useful to also have "build style groups", because
even though we only have four build styles in our project, we regularly
(I could not claim that it was often, but it's still often enough...)
have to change build style settings on up to four branches of the
project = (16 individual build styles * (the number of build settings
per style)).
Feature request 2)
Perhaps the ability to reference the target name in a target build
setting could be introduced? That way we could specify that the target
info.plist file name is "Info-(TARGET_NAME).plist", and that the target
build product name is "(TARGET_NAME)".
j o a r
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