Helpful trick with Info.plist

Peter Castine

One little tweak...

Before duplicating an XCode project folder to start a new project,
you can turn on the "Preprocess the Info.plist file" option (Edit
Active Target; Collection: Packaging, 9th item down the list of
options), then edit your Info.plist so that CFBundleExecutable is $
(PRODUCT_NAME) and CFBundleIdentifier analogously.

This change means that you don't need to manually edit Info.plist
when you clone a new project. Saves maybe 20 seconds per project
(before you yawn, multiply that by 100 or more projects). Seems to be
working here.

Now if I can just figure out how to get my object version information
into Info.plist automatically...

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>
> Now if I can just figure out how to get my object version information
> into Info.plist automatically...

How about generating the Info.plist file with a custom build step?

greetings,
Thomas

Peter Castine

On 18-Jul-2006, at 10:54, Thomas Grill wrote:
> How about generating the Info.plist file with a custom build step?

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Having spent the last few days typing innumerable #pragma unused
lines and changing symbolic constants from 'const int foo =' to
'#define foo' for the benefit of an execrably lame compiler, it will
be a pleasant change if XCode can do something helpful.

-- P