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Asked: 2026-06-09T15:23:15+00:00

I have a main project App that contains subproject intended to be installed in

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I have a main project App that contains subproject intended to be installed in AppBundleDirectory/Contents/PlugIns.

The default installation directory for plugin.xcodeproj is /Library/Bundles, I’d like to change it to AppBundleDirectory/Contents/PlugIns. I don’t think plugin is aware of its parent build directory, so I couldn’t find any environment variable to put into the Installation Directory setting.

To sum it up:

Project structure

App.xcodeproj
  Plugins/
    plugin1.xcodeproj
    plugin2.xcodeproj

Wanted generated structure

App.app
  Contents/
    Plugins/
      plugin1.bundle
      plugin2.bundle

How should I proceed ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your app target depends on your plugin targets, then it’s fairly straightforward:

    • Add a Copy Files phase to your app
    • Make the Destination “PlugIns” (this is in the drop-down list)
    • Use the “+” button to choose the plugins.

    If the plugins depend on the app, then it’s only slightly more complicated. You have to hard-code the name of the app:

    • Make sure that everyone has the same DSTROOT (using a single Scheme is the easiest way to get this)
    • Make the plugins INSTALL_PATH be “/App.app/Contents/PlugIns” (note the leading /)

    Note that it’s “PlugIns” not “Plugins”. 99.99% of the time it doesn’t matter. But every so often you run into that one guy who chooses a case-sensitive file system at install and your plugins don’t load. I chased that bug for four months once. Picking it from the Copy Files list is a nice way to be sure to be right.

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