How do you zip a Xcode project?

Question

Tired sending my friend an XCODE project , but files are missing? No idea why?

Any ideas

Answer 1

Assuming you understand how to use the Terminal.app:

In the directory above your project:

tar cvzf .tar.gz

This will create a .tar.gz file for your project, which is compressed archive, similar to .zip

Your friend can then run tar xvzf .tar.gz to expand to a directory on their computer.

If you run man tar from the command line, this will explain what all the command line arguments for tar do.