Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 7429039
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 29, 20262026-05-29T08:54:23+00:00 2026-05-29T08:54:23+00:00

I have an Xcode project with a large number of targets where I would

  • 0

I have an Xcode project with a large number of targets where I would like to include a settings bundle for apps built under the Ad-hoc and Debug configurations, but not under the Release configuration.

Build Phases don’t seem to allow for making themselves conditional on configuration (they can obviously be conditional on target, but doubling the number of targets in the project would make it completely unusable).

That leaves writing a custom Build Rule. My plan is to exclude the Settings.bundle from all targets, and create a build rule that conditionally copies it into the product package, but applicable examples are really hard to find.

The build rule I’ve started has the Process setting set to “Source files with names matching:” and Settings.bundle as the name. The Using setting is “Custom script:”.

My custom script is as follows (with the caveat that my bash scripting is on a cargo cult level):

if [${CONFIGURATION} = 'Debug'] then
    cp -r ${INPUT_FILE_PATH} ${DERIVED_FILES_DIR}/.
fi

Finally, I have ${DERIVED_FILES_DIR}/Settings.bundle listed as an output file.

Since I’m here, it should be obvious that it’s not working. My first question is whether there is somewhere I can view the output of the build rules as the execute to make sure that 1) it’s actually being executed and that 2) I don’t have a stupid syntax error somewhere.

Also, what’s the proper location (in the form of an environment variable) to copy the output to?

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-29T08:54:24+00:00Added an answer on May 29, 2026 at 8:54 am

    I finally figured it out.

    For each target for which you want to conditionally include the settings bundle, choose its Project from the source list, choose the target, and switch to the “Build Phases” tab.

    Click the “Add Build Phase” button and choose “Add Run Script”.

    Then enter the following for the script:

    if [ "${CONFIGURATION}" == "Debug" ]; then
        cp -r "${PROJECT_DIR}/Settings.bundle" "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.app"
    fi
    
    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

I have an Xcode project with a few commits, and now I would like
I have an xcode project that has 4 targets (2 apps, 1 iPhone and
I have an XCode project with 2 targets (both are iPhone apps sharing 95%
Now I have a Xcode project which is built for iOS 5, but now
Does anybody have an experiencing with refactoring a project built with Xcode 4.3 down
I have an XCode project, with the XIB interface files built using Interface Builder.
I have messed up with some of the settings in my XCode project and
I have one Xcode project with multiple targets. During development, it is becoming laborious
I have an XCode project built as a Cocoa single document application (it's not
I have an XCode project where when I click on Project->Edit Project Settings I

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.