XcodeGen VS xcbuild

Compare XcodeGen vs xcbuild and see what are their differences.

XcodeGen

A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project (by yonaskolb)

xcbuild

Xcode-compatible build tool. (by facebook)
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XcodeGen xcbuild
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6,778 1,943
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7.8 0.0
about 19 hours ago over 4 years ago
Swift C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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XcodeGen

Posts with mentions or reviews of XcodeGen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-24.

xcbuild

Posts with mentions or reviews of xcbuild. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning xcbuild yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing XcodeGen and xcbuild you can also consider the following projects:

Tuist - 🚀 Create, maintain, and interact with Xcode projects at scale

R.swift - Strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects

SwiftGen - The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!

SwiftLintXcode - An Xcode plug-in to format your code using SwiftLint.

PlayNow - Small app that creates empty Swift playground files and opens them with Xcode.

fastlane-plugin-appicon - Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon.

SourceKitten - An adorable little framework and command line tool for interacting with SourceKit.

Struct - Xcode projects on steroids

Awesome-Design-Tools - The best design tools and plugins for everything 👉

jazzy - Soulful docs for Swift & Objective-C

Kin - Sane PBXProj files