Cocoa® Programming

Terminal

Mac OS X includes an application called Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities folder. Terminal provides access to a traditional Unix command line. Several developer tools that don’t have graphical user interfaces use the command line. The command line is sometimes the most efficient way to use tools that do have a graphical user interface.

Project Builder is used from the command line to build the install version of an application. Normally, Project Builder preserves at least minimal debugging information in the applications that it builds. The command-line version of Project Builder is called pbxbuild. The command pbxbuild –install builds the project in the current directory using options appropriate for a final install version of ...