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Asked: 2026-06-08T06:47:56+00:00

This is related to preserve include path in xcode , but is the complimentary

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This is related to preserve include path in xcode, but is the complimentary problem.

We are organizing our code on disk into logical components with folders like:

ComponentA/HeaderA.h
ComponentB/HeaderB.h

and require that team members import them like

#import "ComponentA/HeaderA.h"
#import "ComponentB/HeaderB.h"

We use the USER_HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS pointing at the directory above ComponentA/B to enable the compiler to find these, it works fine.

However, these headers are included in the Xcode project, so if someone accidentally uses

#import "HeaderA.h"
#import "HeaderB.h"

then Xcode will still find the header, but we want it to produce a compiler error. Is there a way to get Xcode to stop finding these headers unless the hierarchical name is used?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It turns out that this has been asked before in
    controlling which project header file Xcode will include

    The key undocumented setting is USE_HEADERMAP=NO, which stops Xcode from automatically finding any header file that has been added to the project.

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