Posts tagged with ‘OS X’

• New Xcode Build System and BuildSettingExtractor

  June 13, 2017

  Last week at WWDC 2017, Apple announced a new build system for Xcode, with an opt-in preview in Xcode 9. The new system is written in Swift and promises to be a significant advance in a number of areas including performance and dependency management. The new system is built on top of the open source llbuild project and lays the foundation for integrating the Xcode build system with the Swift Package Manager.

• NSConference 7: A Look Back

  March 24, 2015

  Last fall, I received an email that read, “I would like to invite you to be a speaker at NSConference 7”.

• Learning More About Xcode Build Settings with BuildSettingExtractor

  February 8, 2015

  Last week I posted about BuildSettingExtractor, a utility that makes it easy to pull the build settings out of an Xcode project file and into xcconfig build configuration files. (The post also mentions some xcconfig file benefits with links to ‘how to’ information. Read the earlier post here.)

• Generating Xcode Build Configuration Files with BuildSettingExtractor (xcodeproj → xcconfig)

  January 31, 2015

  The most recent NSScreencast covered using build configuration files to specify build settings in Xcode. (Episode #154)

• Life Without WWDC

  April 18, 2014

  [Update: This post was written in 2014 — but holds true for WWDC 2015. As for me, I didn’t try to get a ticket this year.

• Moving to new Objective-C literals

  July 30, 2012

  Last week, I moved one of my projects over to use the new Objective-C literals for NSNumber, NSArray and NSDictionary as well as the new syntax for boxing expressions into NSNumber and NSString objects.  Here are a few comments on how it went.