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Grauzten
Grauzten

Reputation: 353

Should Facebook ios sdk's static library appear inside Xcode Project?

I'm currently doing facebook integration and have gone through this tutorial. So far, I've done everything until step #2.

To test the single sign - on, I decided to implement it in Paul Heggarty's Photomania project. To do this, as said by the tutorial linked above, I should clone the git hub repository (under step 2). I've done this by copy and pasting git clone git://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk.git on my Terminal and it works fine. I can locate where the facebook-ios-sdk folder is in. Great, so I dragged the folder to the Photomania project.

Also stated in the tutorial that I should make a static library for the facebook-ios-sdk if I enabled Automatic Reference Counting for the App (Photomania). Which is what I did after discovering through streaming back to the Core Data Demo video that Photomania actually enabled ARC. So now, I did the static library by copy and pasting this ~/facebook-ios-sdk/scripts/build_facebook_ios_sdk_static_lib.sh to my Terminal. Upon doing so, it actually created the new library.

However, I can't see the lib folder inside facebook-ios-sdk (already copied in the Photomania). Even though through Finder I can locate the project Photomania, see the facebook-ios-sdk's lib folder in it with the Static library.

Enlighten me please.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 462

Answers (1)

CodaFi
CodaFi

Reputation: 43330

You see, Xcode and the finder have completely independent file systems (assuming you are not checking the "copy files (if needed)" option). When you drag a file from the finder to an Xcode project, they are copied and placed under the "Copy Bundle Resources" tab, while still retaining the general file-structure that you dragged inside the Xcode file tree. So therefore, updates to finder files necessitate the new file(s) being dragged into the Xcode file tree. Simple as that.

Upvotes: 1

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