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Re: Aggregate targets in Xcode - is there any documentation on this anywhere?
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Re: Aggregate targets in Xcode - is there any documentation on this anywhere?


  • Subject: Re: Aggregate targets in Xcode - is there any documentation on this anywhere?
  • From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 21:10:10 -0600

On Feb 26, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Is there any documentation anywhere within Xcode 7.x or on Apple's Developer Portal that describes Aggregate targets?

From <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/General/Conceptual/SLGlobalGlossary/Glossary/Glossary.html>:

> aggregate target
> In Xcode, a combination of targets, not necessarily dependent on each other, that does not produce a product or contain build rules or information property list entries. An aggregate target exists so that you can make it dependent on other targets. The build system builds the targets that the aggregate target depends on sequentially or in parallel.

So, it's a target that consists entirely of dependencies on other targets and, perhaps, run-script or copy-files build phases.  It's so that you can specify that Xcode build a particular target in order to cause it to build a set of other targets, because you want all of the products of those other targets.

Suppose you make a suite of applications.  You'd have a target for each application and then an aggregate target that depends on all of those application targets.  To build the whole suite, you'd build the aggregate target.


By the way, although I already knew what an aggregate target was, I found that glossary entry by searching for: aggregate target site:developer.apple.com/library
<https://www.google.com/search?q=aggregate+target+site:developer.apple.com/library>

Regards,
Ken


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