Re: Header Files Copied into App Bundle - Why?

FROM : Nick Zitzmann
DATE : Tue Jul 18 20:18:44 2006

On Jul 18, 2006, at 11:40 AM, David Emme wrote:

> I've build a project using the "Core Data Document-based 
> Application with Spotlight Importer" template. I see that the 
> resulting app target has a "Copy Files" step which copies not only 
> the Spotlight importer bundle, but also all of the app's header 
> files into Library/Spotlight/ within the app bundle.
>
> Why is it copying the .h files into the app bundle?


This is more of an Xcode question than a Cocoa question, but I'll 
bite this time...

There's a bug in Xcode where, if you have a copy files build phase 
but not a headers build phase, then any headers you check get added 
to the copy files phase, which is probably not what you want. So you 
have two options:

1. Don't check headers in the project.
2. Add a Headers build pase to the top of the target. Then it's safe 
to check off headers. (The Headers build phase does nothing in 
applications.)

Nick Zitzmann
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