Comments on: Tell Xcode Not to Compile a File

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:45:59 +0000

mpramodjain, Touch and untouch a file applies to whether or not on the next build a file should be compiled. However, if you were to do a clean of the project, which should touch all the files, all files would be compiled. The tip in this post marks a file as one that is never to be compiled, regardless of its date/time stamp. I added this post recently to provide a little more clarification to touching files: Touch and Untouch Files in Xcode

By: mpramodjain

mpramodjain — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:20:50 +0000

Hi,

Xcode do have the options touch/Untouch a file. These options also allow to do same , AFAIK.

Not much sure, but I read some where of this kind.

Please share on this whether its right or not.

Thank you

By: bladnman

bladnman — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:54 +0000

Awesome. Thanks. This was baffling me. I was renaming it to .txt to get around it. Not sure this is better as I will forget to do it the next time I create another target. But it works like a charm.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:46:56 +0000

This is great – thanks.

I have the opposite problem!…..how do you force XCode to compile a file, even if it hasn’t changed?

(I’m trying to create a project level build timestamp without going down the route of running XCode from a script).

By: Amit Dhere

Amit Dhere — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:02:35 +0000

Your providing information is good and useful to develop the i-phone software