Introduction

Provides a detailed description of the Xcode build system and shows how to customize it.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following chapters:

Targets describes Xcode targets and how to manage them.

Build Phases provides an overview of build phases, explains how Xcode determines the order in which build phases are processed to build a product.

Build Settings explains how build settings are implemented and how you can take advantage of them to communicate with the build system.

Build Configurations provides a general explanation of build configurations, describes the predefined build configurations you get when you create a target or project in Xcode, and explains how to modify and define your own build configurations.

Linking provides details about how Xcode links code together into images and how you can customize this task.

Reducing Build Times describes the Xcode features that help reduce build times: precompiled headers, predictive compilation, and distributed builds.

This document also has a revision history.