Simple question. Are there any tools for generating Xcode projects from the command line? We use SCons to build our cross-platform application, but that doesn't support intrinsic Xcode project generation. We'd like to avoid creating the project manually, since this would involve maintaining multiple file lists.
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Look at CMake. You can generate XCode projects from it automatically. I found a previous StackOverflow question about its usage here. To get it to generate an XCode project, you use it as such:
CMake -G xcode
Jared Oberhaus
2009-07-11 17:02:11
Yeah, we're trying to avoid converting the project to CMake... I guess we could generate a CMakeLists.txt file from SCons, or maybe not ;)
nbolton
2009-07-11 17:27:18
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You could use Automator to generate them for you.
I checked and there is no prebuilt action. Therefore you would have to record your actions with Automator to do this.
Brock Woolf
2009-07-11 17:04:29
Just checked out Automator, I'm not sure its what I'm looking for since it uses the GUI to perform operations. I was thinking more like a command based approach... Thanks anyway.
nbolton
2009-07-11 17:25:06
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qmake in the Qt toolchain generates Xcode projects. You can at least download it and take a look at its source here (LGPL).
Barry Wark
2009-07-12 03:17:25
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I think that your question should be "Is there a way to generate an XCode project from a SCons one?". I suppose, by your asking and by reading the others, that the answer is 'no'.
SCons people should know it better. I think they will be happy if you contribute a SCons Xcode project generator.
In the meantime you may choose to switch to CMake or to create your XCode project by hand that, given a good source tree organization, may be the best pragmatic solution.
IlDan
2009-07-15 00:20:31
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You can use premake (http://industriousone.com/premake) to generate Xcode projects. It can also generate Visual Studio projects.
Felics
2010-07-16 15:46:13