Enabling the Xcode App Integration

Incredibuild for Mac is capable of accelerating builds from Xcode, both the xcodebuild command-line and the Xcode application (the IDE). Accelerating builds from the Xcode application happens automatically, but it does require a one-time setup command to enable this integration.

This setup command does not replace the Xcode build system or change your Xcode projects. It changes the parallelism of builds (you can control this if you want), and it tells the Xcode application to run the builds via the Incredibuild acceleration platform, just like the ib_console command does for the xcodebuild command-line.

This setting cannot be changed while Xcode is running, so to enable or disable the integration you must first quit the Xcode application, enable or disable, and then launch Xcode again.

If there are multiple users using Xcode on this Mac machine, then the setup command should be run for every such user.

• To enable the Xcode integration, run the following command:

  /opt/incredibuild/management/ib_xcode_config enable

• To disable the Xcode integration, run the following command:

  /opt/incredibuild/management/ib_xcode_config disable

• To check whether the Xcode integration is enabled or not, run the following command:

  /opt/incredibuild/management/ib_xcode_config status

  Example response: 

  ib_xcode_config: Incredibuild & Xcode integration is disabled.