What is CompileC?

Question

I'm amazed a simple Google search didn't answer this... I know it's something used by XCode but I can't run it or get a man page from the command line either.

What does it do and where can I find information?

Answer 1

CompileC is a logged representation of an internal function for xcodebuild. It is a source of basic information about the compilation in the build.log file. For a simple terminal app with a main.m class, information after CompileC indicates:

• the object file (main.o, temporarily stored in a hashed directory during the xcodebuild process)
• the method file (main.m)
• compilation mode (normal - I don't know the other options - anyone?)
• architecture (X86_64)
• language (objective-c)
• the compiler (com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0.compiler)

You cannot access CompileC from the command line directly, but you can have lots of control over the Xcode build process from the command line if you wish:

man xcodebuild