Adding project as dependency in XCode 4.x

xcode dependencies
intepid picture intepid · Mar 21, 2011 · Viewed 15.5k times · Source

With the revamp of XCode I am having a lot of trouble working out how to add make one xcodeproj dependent on another. It was hard enough to work out before but now I am just stuck.

If I drag lib.xcodeproj into app.xcodeproj it just shows up as an item in the project tree and I can't expand it or see build products for linking.

Can someone give me the correct sequence for adding lib.xcodeproj as a dependency to app.xcodeproj (ie it will build if necessary and link to app)

Answer

intepid picture intepid · Mar 21, 2011

Ahhh just worked out that the reason the lib project was being added as a useless non-expanding item was because I had the lib project open in another window. XCode gave me no indication that this was what the problem was, so I was lucky to stumble across it.

Once I had closed the other window I was able to add the lib project and it showed up correctly as an expandable subtree, as well as now being visible for selection in the app target dependencies.

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