Is it possible to automatically generate Xcode projects?

Question

Simple question. Are there any tools for generating Xcode projects from the command line? We use SCons to build our cross-platform application, but that doesn't support intrinsic Xcode project generation. We'd like to avoid creating the project manually, since this would involve maintaining multiple file lists.

Answer 1

Look at CMake. You can generate XCode projects from it automatically. I found a previous StackOverflow question about its usage here. To get it to generate an XCode project, you use it as such:

CMake -G xcode

Answer 2

You can use premake (http://industriousone.com/premake) to generate Xcode projects. It can also generate Visual Studio projects.

Answer 3

For the benefit of anyone who lands on this question, I’ve actually just pushed an Xcode project file generator for SCons up to Bitbucket.

Answer 4

I think that your question should be "Is there a way to generate an XCode project from a SCons one?". I suppose, by your asking and by reading the others, that the answer is 'no'.

SCons people should know it better. I think they will be happy if you contribute a SCons Xcode project generator.

In the meantime you may choose to switch to CMake or to create your XCode project by hand that, given a good source tree organization, may be the best pragmatic solution.