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Does xcode use of the xcodebuild command behind the scenes to build?

If so, how can I find the exact xcodebuild command that is run? I checked the report navigator but couldn't find it in there.

I would have thought that running xcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator -configuration Debug -project <myproject>.xcodeproj -scheme <myscheme> would be identical to selecting product -> build in xcode (with a scheme/destination matching the command line), but they seem to have slightly different behavior.

For example, when running the command line above with the -showBuildSettings option, I noticed that BUILD_ACTIVE_RESOURCES_ONLY=NO even though it should be set to YES according to the target's build settings. When running product -> build from xcode, the build settings logs (generated by following @Slipp D. Thompson's answer here) show BUILD_ACTIVE_RESOURCES_ONLY=YES.

There are few other strange differences I noticed as well.

el_tigro
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No. One could do an experiment: move all xcodebuild binaries in some local folder and check that Xcode still able to build some application.

Since Apple presents xcodebuild as a self contained command line tool for building Xcode projects, it is reasonable to suspect that use code sharing between both tools.

Kirill Shmakov
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