Re: ENABLE_BITCODE=NO and assistive applications
Re: ENABLE_BITCODE=NO and assistive applications
- Subject: Re: ENABLE_BITCODE=NO and assistive applications
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 13:14:06 -0400
On Sep 14, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Jens Alfke < email@hidden> wrote:
On Sep 14, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Bill Cheeseman < email@hidden> wrote:
Does anybody know if Xcode 7 can be used to develop applications without bitcode?
Why don’t you try it and see? (No sarcasm intended. Just pointing out that Xcode 7 has been available in beta form since June.)
I will try it, of course, and I've been using Xcode 7 beta for quite a while. But the time when my under-development framework will be ready to embed in a test application is still a little way in the future, and I was hoping to get authoritative outside input in the meantime. What I wonder is whether setting the ENABLE_BITCODE build setting to NO will work for applications as well as frameworks.
I assume that bitcode is _only_ included in an app when it’s being built for submission to the App Store. There is absolutely no reason for the linker to include bitcode in a regular build of an app, because the OS doesn’t have the tools to do anything with it. Bitcode is only used by Apple’s distribution servers to generate customized binaries for App Store customers to download.
I assume so, too, for just that reason, but the Release Notes' focus on frameworks worries me. As you know, assumptions are dangerous things in this business. Since posting, I have discovered that the default setting for ENABLE_BITCODE seems to be NO, at least in Xcode 7 GM. |
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