Build Process

To understand this post, I highly recommend everyone to watch the WWDC 2022 - Link fast: Improve build and launch times and WWDC 2018 - Behind the Scenes of the Xcode Build Process. They’re of the best talks I’ve ever seen. This post covers some of the jargon and how it all comes together. And even though I love making puzzles, I’ll justify why I picked it as my cover....

This the first post of a series I’m doing on how to optimize your app’s binaries. The post is more of a high level intro. Depending on the action (build, run, test, profile, analyze, archive) of your scheme, the process will have all or some of the following steps: Dependency analysis What happens when you press build? So the first step is for the build system to take the build description, your Xcode project file....