How can I conditionally include a file based on build configuration in Xcode?

Question

I have an Xcode project with a large number of targets where I would like to include a settings bundle for apps built under the Ad-hoc and Debug configurations, but not unde

Answer 1

I know this question has been answered already, and the answer was very helpful to me, but I wanted to throw my own modified solution out there as well.

My requirement was to have different settings bundles for different build configurations, rather than just not including it at release. Assuming a simplistic approach of only Debug and Release configurations, here's how to do it:

Start by adding 2 settings bundles to the project, named Settings-debug.bundle and Settings-release.bundle and then remove these files from the Copy Bundle Resources build phase. Next add a user defined build setting called SETTINGS_BUNDLE, which has different values for each configuration:

Debug        ${PROJECT_DIR}/relative/path/to/Settings-debug.bundle
Release      ${PROJECT_DIR}/relative/path/to/Settings-release.bundle

Next add a run-script build phase (after Copy Bundle Resources) named Copy Settings Bundle with a modified version of the script in Frank's solution.

cp -r "${SETTINGS_BUNDLE}/" "${BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR}/${PRODUCT_NAME}.app/Settings.bundle"

The difference here is that the copied bundle is always named Settings.bundle regardless of the source name.

You then need to add another build phase script to prevent code signing errors when the only changes are in the settings bundles. It forces the code signing step to occur on every build. This should run before the Compile Source Files build phase. I called mine Force Codesign.

touch "${PROJECT_DIR}/relative/path/to/main.m"