Say I have 2 projects in an Xcode 4 workspace. Project A is the final product which requires the utility app built from project B. The goal is to have the build process of A automatically build project B if necessary, then copy the built app into the resource folder of product A’s app bundle.
Xcode 4’s documentation is really lacking in this regard. I tried adding the built B.app into project A with Add Files to “project A”… command. It does copy the app bundle but it doesn’t check for a dependency. That is, it does not automatically build project B when it’s updated.
Any pointer to find the right documentation is also much appreciated.
Edited: I am looking to accomplish the first 2 benefits mentioned in this doc, that are:
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One project can use the products of another project while building.
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If one project depends on the products of another in the same
workspace, Xcode can detect this and automatically build the projects
in the correct sequence.
I know the plain old project way of adding a project to another one as a sub-project so I can set the target dependencies. But from the wording of the workspace doc, there’s seems to be an easier and automatic way. But I am not able to find the steps to do either of the two features.
Add project B as “Target dependency” in project A’s “Build phases” tab in the target screen. (The screen that you get when you click on the top level project node)
Update:
It seems that a project can only define the output of another project as dependency if the second project is a subproject of the first:
If your Workspace has the following structure, defining dependencies is not possible:
