Per-file buildoptions on Xcode availability?

[somyungoh]

Hi all,

In fact, there was already an inquiry regarding this 5 years ago - premake/premake-xcode#27, but is it possible or a way to configure a buildoptions per-file for Xcode? What I would like to do is something like:

filter {"action:xcode4", "files:*.c"}
    buildoptions {"foo"}
filter {"action:xcode4", "files:*.cpp"}
    buildoptions {"bar"}

cheers,

[samsinsane]

The XCode generator hasn't changed much at all in the last 5 years. It gets minor features added from time to time, but largely the same code as it was 5 years ago. My understanding is that it would require a large overhaul of the generator to support per file configurations. So, no it's not possible to do what you're asking unfortunately. We would be more than happy to accept PRs that move the XCode generator towards per-file config support though.

[starkos]

@somyungoh You're doing it correctly, so it does look like it isn't yet supported. FWIW, I'm painfully aware of the shortcomings of the current Xcode exporter and working on a new one.

If someone wanted to take this on for v5, you'd probably want to start here. filecfg.buildoptions should contain the per-file build options for that build configuration. Then you'd "just" have to figure out what needs to be written to the .xcodeproj and get it there.

[somyungoh]

I see, thank you for letting me know. I'll see if I can do some workaround for my needs from there.

Thanks,