Xcode 8 does full project rebuild

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Vlad picture Vlad · Sep 12, 2016 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

Having updated Swift + ObjC project to Xcode 8 (Swift 2.3) I found 50% or more of the time Xcode does a full rebuild of the project instead of an incremental build.

The changes made are adding simple print statements. There seems to be no logic as to when it performs a full rebuild.

It appears in the "Check dependencies" phase it decides this. On Xcode 7 this did not seem to be a problem.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Answer

Vlad picture Vlad · Sep 13, 2016

I have found this works consistently, it will however compile swift files if you modify a header included in the bridging header. It will also do full compile if you switch git branches back and forth.

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Then, according to https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/62737 Apple Staff (ddunbar):

We believe that setting: 

HEADERMAP_USES_VFS = YES

to true in your project (or for all your targets) may be an effective workaround > for many people. This is not guaranteed to work (which is the reason it isn't > already on by default), but it should work for most projects.

This should be added through "Add user-defined setting" under your target Build Settings.

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