Re: Expanding build settings in a secondary .plist
Re: Expanding build settings in a secondary .plist
- Subject: Re: Expanding build settings in a secondary .plist
- From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:30:44 -0700
On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
Howdy all.
I have a somewhat complex project where I include a secondary .plist
file (meaning, it's not any target's primary info.plist. Currently I
copy this into its proper place in a custom build script phase.
It's becoming a hassle to keep this file synchronized with settings
and I'd like to expand these settings automagically like happens for
the main info.plist when INFOPLIST_EXPAND_BUILD_SETTINGS is on.
Now, this seems to happen by calling an internal pseudo-tool which
appears in the build log as <com.apple.tools.info-plist-utility>.
This appears to be implemented inside the private DevToolsCore
framework and I couldn't find out how to call it from my build script.
I had hopes of just being able to put an extra line into my script,
like:
/path/to/info-plist-utility "$SOURCE_ROOT/Special.plist" -
expandbuildsettings -o "$UNLOCALIZED_RESOURCES_FOLDER_PATH/
Special.plist"
but since there's no real tool, I don't know what to do.
Is this possible with the current Xcode 3.0 or should I file an
enhancement request? Any workaround?
This is not easy to do. You could always set up a bogus target just
for the purposes of preprocessing the Info.plist, then have a Run
Script build phase copy it over, but that's a hack.
The Info.plist file is, as you realize, a build setting that is
specially processed by the build system, not general-purpose files to
be compiled like sources or resources. I don't know of a mechanism to
access Xcode's internal plist processing stages other than through
building a target's Info.plist.
Chris
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