How to build command line tool in iphone project

Question

Hi,

I just started programming in Xcode and I'm trying to write an iphone application. I started out with a simple template for Iphone development and took it from there. Now I would like to build a command line tool (for converting data) which reuses some of the classes in my iphone project. I managed to add a new target 'convert', link the appropriate source code to the target, make the target dependent on the main target. Everything builds, so far so good, but it does not generate the right executable, it will build only build/Debug-iphonesimulator/convert which is not runnable from the command line (I'm guessing because it is not linked with the right libraries).

~/Documents/XCode/SQLiteTutorial> ./build/Debug-iphonesimulator/convert
dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSCharacterSet
  Referenced from: /Users/marc/Documents/XCode/SQLiteTutorial/./build/Debug-iphonesimulator/convert
  Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
 in /Users/marc/Documents/XCode/SQLiteTutorial/./build/Debug-iphonesimulator/convert
Trace/BPT trap

Is this possible with xcode at all? I'm not sure what kind of extra information you would need to answer this question, so let me know what to provide, if anything.

Kind regards, Marc van Kempen.

Answer 1

iPhone SDK does not officially support building command-line tools. iPhone does not run command-line tools; at least, not without jailbreaking.

Answer 2

What if you simply created a different project entirely and then dragged in the relevant classes you wanted to reuse, but instead of copying them, merely used references to them? Just don't select 'copy items into destination's folder' option when you drag the class files into your groups & files pane. That way your CL project always uses the latest version from the main iPhone one.

Having it all in one project would no doubt be cleaner though.