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Build Styles

A build style is a variation on a target that allows you to override some of the build settings in a target without creating a whole new target. While a target contains a list of files, build rules, build phases, and build settings, a build style contains only build settings. You can apply the same build style to all targets in your project. Build styles are a flexible tool for quickly “tweaking” your product or for saving different groups of build settings to apply to a target depending on the current circumstances.

This article provides a general explanation of build styles, describes the predefined build styles you get when you create an Xcode project, and explains how to define your own build styles.

Contents:

Overview of Build Styles
Predefined Build Styles
Editing Build Styles

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