How can you generate a Makefile from an Xcode project?

Question

I want to generate a Makefile from an existing Xcode project on the Mac. Specifically, an existing iPhone, Objective-C program on the Mac.

I found PBToMake, but it looks like it is for Xcode 2.1 and when I tried using it, it did not work for an Xcode 3.1 project.

Answer 1

GNUStep provides 'pbxbuild' to convert a .xcodeproj file into a GNUMakefile.

UPDATE: pbxbuild is now deprecated

Answer 2

It's not an automated way of generating a Makefile, but I found it at least gets a list of source files that are built for a target.

I'm using Xcode 4.0.2 in this case..

• select the project top node
• select the target in the target list.
• Choose "Build Phases"
• Open the "Compile Sources"
• Select one of the source files
• PRess Command-A to select all
• Press Command-C to copy
• Paste in your favorite text editor and Regex away to restructure.

The pasted output is FULL pathnames to each source file.

Answer 3

Xcode does not support generating a Makefile from a project. If you just want to build your project outside of the IDE, check out the xcodebuild command-line tool.