Chapter 13. The Build System
Xcode 4 offers for its build system a powerful user interface that de-emphasizes switching between separate build configurations for debug and release and focuses more on what developers spend most of their time doing within the IDE: coding and debugging.
An Overview
Let’s take a brief tour of the terminology before exploring each term in depth. The result of a build is some sort of product—an application, a plug-in, a command-line program, a framework, or a library.
Targets
A target describes a product (an application, a plug-in, a library, a unit testing bundle, or an aggregate of other targets) to be built and the instructions for building it. The instructions specify build settings, phases, rules, and source ...
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