Implement an easy way to generate a makefile from .xcodeproj

[jerrymarino]

It would be awesome if there was an easy way to convert Xcode projects to make files.

There currently isn't a good way to get the compiler arguments and build commands for projects that primarily store build preferences in Xcode projects.

There was a tool for gnu step that provided similar functionality pbxbuild but it is now deprecated. Is a feature like this in scope of this project?

[jasperblues]

It wasn't something I'd planned, since xcodebuild provides a command-line interface. Generally using an Xcode project implies having Xcode itself. But I can see it would be useful turning an Xcode project into something more portable, eg building on Linux.

[jerrymarino]

Thanks for the quick reply @jasperblues. My primary need is using Xcode projects with tools that need to invoke a compiler i.e. static analyzers, code completion plugins. I think porting projects to Linux is a great use for this too

[priteshshah1983]

Not sure if this helps, but worth checking out: http://jamesdempsey.net/2015/01/31/generating-xcode-build-configuration-files-with-buildsettingextractor-xcodeproj-to-xcconfig/