Glossary

• build phase  

  A build phases defines a concrete task that Project Builder performs to build a product.



• build setting  

  A build setting is a variable that stores a specific aspect to be used for building a product.



• build style  

  Build styles contain build setting configurations that override the configurations of the active target in a project They allow you to make small changes to a target’s configuration without having to create a separate target.



• information property list  

  A property list that contains essential configuration information for bundles. A file named Info.plist (or a platform-specific variant of that filename) contains the information property list and is packaged inside the bundle.



• product  

  An element that gets created as part of the process of generating a running application, such as library files and executable files.



• target  

  A target is a blueprint for building a product from specified resources in a project. It consists of a list of the necessary files the actions that need to be performed on them to generate a product.



• target, aggregate  

  An aggregate target groups other targets; it contains no product-building instructions. The operations you perform on an aggregate targets are carried out on all the targets it encloses.