I'm having a problem getting XCode to deal with a particular file structure that I am using or that I wish to use.
I have a set of files in the following form...
Library
Headers
Library
Package1
Header1.h
Header2.h
HeaderN.h
Package2
Header1.h
Header2.h
HeaderN.h
PackageN
Header1.h
Header2.h
HeaderN.h
Source
Package1
Source1.m
Source2.m
SourceN.m
Package2
Source1.m
Source2.m
SourceN.m
Package3
Source1.m
Source2.m
SourceN.m
The include model I want for code outside of this library is...
#import "Library/Package/Header.h"
I want to point XCode at Library/Headers but not at the internal folders. When I add this tree to the project XCode seems to make implicit include paths to every node in the tree.
Client code within the project but outside this tree can do this...
#import "Header.h"
instead of...
#import "Library/Package/Header.h"
I can't seem to find a way to dissallow the non-qualified form.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-Roman
You're running up against Xcode's behaviour that it builds a flat-headermap. You can disable this by adding the build setting:
HEADERMAP_INCLUDES_FLAT_ENTRIES_FOR_TARGET_BEING_BUILT=NO
to your project settings.
If you include the headers in files in the project then XCode will always find them without path qualification, as you've discovered. The best solution is to remove the headers from the project and specify "Library/Headers" as a header search path in your project settings. The headers won't show in your project, but they also won't be implicitly found by XCode while compiling, either; client code will have to specify the full path off of "Library/Headers" to get to the header file they want.
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I have a CMake project that looks like this:
project/
CMakeLists.txt
subprojectA/
CMakeLists.txt
include/
headerA.hpp
src/
libraryA.cpp
subprojectB/
CMakeLists.txt
src/
mainB.cpp
The "library" subproject, A, is compiled as a static library, becoming libsubprojectA.a. The "main" project, B, is compiled as a binary and depends on the library. mainB.cpp includes a reference to headerA.hpp.
Here is subprojectA/CMakeLists.txt:
project(SubProjectA)
include_directories(include)
add_library(subprojectA STATIC src/libraryA.cpp)
set(${PROJECT_NAME}_INCLUDE_DIRS
${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/include
CACHE INTERNAL "${PROJECT_NAME}: Include Directories" FORCE)
And here is subprojectB/CMakeLists.txt:
project(SubProjectB)
include_directories(${SubProjectA_INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_executable(mainBinary src/mainB.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainBinary subprojectA)
The main Project CMakeLists.txt looks like:
project(Project)
add_subdirectory(subprojectB)
add_subdirectory(subprojectA)
Note that subprojectB, the main project, is listed before subprojectA.
Here's the problem. When I first run "cmake" on this project, ${SubProjectA_INCLUDE_DIRS} is not set within SubProjectB.
What I think is happening is that the CMakeLists for SubProjectB loads first, when ${SubProjectA_INCLUDE_DIRS} has not yet been set. It sets its own include path to an empty string as a result. However, even though libsubprojectA.a gets built successfully before mainBinary, the include path was already set empty beforehand. As a result, I get this error when trying to make mainBinary:
subprojectB/src/mainB.cpp:1:23: fatal error: headerA.hpp: No such file or directory
#include "headerA.hpp"
^
It's a workaround to put subprojectA before subprojectB in the main Project CMakeLists in the declarative world of CMake. What I really want is to know the proper way to indicate to CMake that the include_directories(${SubProjectA_INCLUDE_DIRS}) line depends on the definitions that exist inside SubProjectA's CMakeLists. Is there a better way to do this?
If you want to express that include directory subprojectA/include is an interface of the library subprojectA, attach this property to the target with target_include_directories command:
subprojectA/CMakeLists.txt:
project(SubProjectA)
add_library(subprojectA STATIC src/libraryA.cpp)
# PUBLIC adds both:
# 1) include directories for compile library and
# 2) include directories for library's interface
target_include_directories(subprojectA PUBLIC include)
So any executable(or other library) which linked with subprojectA will have this include directory automatically:
subprojectB/CMakeLists.txt:
project(SubProjectB)
add_executable(mainBinary src/mainB.cpp)
target_link_libraries(mainBinary subprojectA)
Of course, for use last command properly you need to process directory with library before one with executable:
CMakeLists.txt:
project(Project)
add_subdirectory(subprojectA)
add_subdirectory(subprojectB)
I have an Xcode 7.2 project that succeeds when building/running against the local device Product|Build. The main project include a reference to InAppSettingsKit project. When I try Product|Archive the build fails. Any help or suggestions will appreciated.
The main project has a bridging header file to InAppSettingsKit project. The problem seems to be that the header file referenced in the bridging header file is not found.
Bridging Header File
#ifndef Screen_Saver_Killer_InAppSettingsKit_Bridging_Header_h
#define Screen_Saver_Killer_InAppSettingsKit_Bridging_Header_h
#endif
#include <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "InAppSettingsKit/IASKViewController.h"
#import "InAppSettingsKit/IASKAppSettingsViewController.h"
#import "InAppSettingsKit/IASKSpecifierValuesViewController.h"
#import "InAppSettingsKit/IASKSpecifier.h"
#import "InAppSettingsKit/IASKSettingsReader.h"
#import <iAd/iAd.h>
As requested, here is the search paths of the main project:
(I noticed InAppSettingsKit.xcodeproj is in red; does that mean anything ?)
My problem was with InAppSettingsKit. Their website says: for Archive builds there's a minor annoyance: To make those work, you'll need to add $(OBJROOT)/UninstalledProducts/include to the HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS
This wasn't quite right either.
I think this is a bug in XCode 7.2 + Swift with Obj-C dependencies when archives are built.
I now know way more about xcode than I ever wanted to.
First you need to go through the install logs to find out where things are being built. On my installation $OBJROOT points to:
/Users/jlongo/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/PROJECTX-bmyyngijghtekdgqqfnabonhpuxo/Build/Intermediates/ArchiveIntermediates/PROJECTX/IntermediateBuildFilesPath
There I found the header files in the path:
.../IntermediateBuildFilesPath/iphoneos/include/InAppSettingsKit/
So my resolution ended up being (non-recursive)
$(OBJROOT)/UninstalledProducts/iphoneos/include
Interestingly, $(OBJROOT) or other recursive paths shorter than this one did not work.
Also I placed this setting in:
Main Project|**Targets**|Build Settings|Header Search Paths
setting it here will not work:
Main Project|**Project**|Build Settings|Header Search Paths
I have a project where there's only a handful of logical groupings for generating static libraries. However for convenience I want to have the library's source code to be managed with more granular folders.
Currently the only way I know to do this in CMake without having a library for each folder is to just list files as you would normally in with their relative paths:
add_library(SystemAbstraction STATIC "Some/Path/File.cpp")
However I can see this getting unwieldy as the project grows in size with all the different paths.
I tried to see if I could have a CMakeLists.txt in each folder and just use a variable in the base CMakeLists.txt when adding library dependencies. But it seems that add_subdirectory doesn't also import variables?
For expanding the scope of a variable inside a subdirectory, use the PARENT_SCOPE option of set. For example, you can test that if you have
# CMakeLists.txt
set(SRCS main.c)
add_subdirectory(foo)
message(${SRCS})
in the root directory and
# foo/CMakeLists.txt
set(SRCS ${SRCS} foo.c PARENT_SCOPE)
in a subdirectory then it will print main.c foo.c, i.e., the variable is correctly imported into the base CMakeLists.txt.
An option would be to use the object library feature of CMake. You still can but doesn't need to organise your CMake script into subdirectories:
add_library(lib1 OBJECT <srcs>)
add_library(lib2 OBJECT <srcs>)
...
add_library(mainlib $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib1> $<TARGET_OBJECTS:lib2>)
You can set different compile flags for each object library:
target_include_directories(lib1 PRIVATE incl-dir-for-lib1)
target_compile_definitions(lib2 PRIVATE def-for-lib2)
You still need to set link libraries on your main library:
target_link_libraries(mainlib PRIVATE deps-of-lib1 deps-of-lib2)
Related documentation: Object Libraries
Now that ZXingObjC can be used as a framework I can't figure out for the life of me how to add it to my project. I followed the instructions on the git page https://github.com/TheLevelUp/ZXingObjC, but when I add #import <ZXingObjC/ZXingObjC.h> xcode can't find the file. The example projects that they provide, however, compile fine.
Current answer would be http://cocoapods.org.
Put
pod 'ZXingObjC' into your podfile.
The file below does not exist in library header files.
#import <ZXingObjC/ZXingObjC.h>
Also set library header file path in Search Header Path in Build Settings. and import file as per your requirement.
I have a target that uses classes from a static library (.a file).
I have the static library in XCode and it is required for the target and is in the "Linked Libraries" section.
In the code I use a class from the static library like:
#include "class_from_static.h"
But XCode complains that the file "class_from_static.h" is not found. Shouldn't it find it?
I have verified that the static library does indeed contain this class.
What is the issue?
Static libraries aren't like frameworks; they only contain code, not headers. You need to add the folder containing class_from_static.h to your user header search paths, or just add the header file directly to the project. If you double-click the setting you can drag and drop a folder into the list.
As well as telling the linker where to find the static library, you must tell the compiler where to find the header files. Adding the header files to the project also adds them to the compiler's search path.
Try it also with the parent folder. For example, assuming class_from_static.h is in the directory named Static (which should also be the name of the static library), you might try:
#include <Static/class_from_static.h>
Also, remember to add, to your project's "Header Search Paths" under "Build Settings," the path to the directory (relative to your project root) that contains the Static directory above (which might also be called Static). E.g., Vendor/Static, which would contain another directory called Static:
ProjectDir
|- Vendor
`- Static
`- Static
`- class_from_static.h
This is how SSToolkit is structured.