Xcode how to exclude FOLDERS from compilation?

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Nik Kov picture Nik Kov · Jul 20, 2016 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I saw this and answers in stackO, but didn't find how to exclude folders.

I have 3 folders with a lot of .h , .m and .mm and i need to exclude them temporary, but not to remove references. How can i do that?

Answer

Caleb Kleveter picture Caleb Kleveter · Jan 5, 2017

From looking at the post you link to. Here is how you do it:

  1. Go to Build Settings.

  2. Press the plus button and select "Add User-Defined settings"

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  1. Give the new field the name of EXCLUDED_SOURCE_FILE_NAMES.

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  1. Add the path to the folder: <Path>/FolderToIgnore/*. The asterisk denotes all the file in the folder.

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That should do it.

Note: Make sure you add this to the right target.

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