Question

I’m very surprised not to be able to open my Xcode project on another mac, I have never that kind of problem with Visual Studio or Eclipse. I have tried this Info.plist file "no such file" error but it’s not enough.

I have other errors like MyAppViewController files not found in some folder whereas I checked that the files are actually there.

So how do I modify XCode 4 project so that it can be opened on any mac ?

Update: contrary to what is claimed here Duplicating / importing Xcode projects from one Mac to another copying isn’t enough

Update 2: should I be obliged to buy that kind of tools to do so ? http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/project-duplicator-for-xcode/id467950482?mt=12

Answer 1

Copying the files over is enough, as long as you copy all files over and no files are referenced from your project file using absolute paths.

Note that you don’t have to choose to have absolute paths. I’m unsure of the exact details, but I’ve ended up with absolute paths in projects without doing so explicitly.

For example, here’s a project with a missing file:

When I select the missing file, I can see that it’s using an absolute path:

At this point, you have two options:

1. You can click the button in the bottom right of that red box I’ve drawn to find the file. Make sure you pick the right file; if you pick one with a different name, Xcode will happily replace DetailViewController.m with SomeUnrelatedFile.m and you’ll have lost the hint about the original file. After finding it, make sure to pick Location: Relative To Group (usually, that’ll be the right choice anyway) to avoid this happening again.
2. Possibly safer, go back to the original computer. For any file that you know is missing on the destination computer, pick Location: Relative To Group. Then copy everything over again.