Foreword

Sometimes, we need to compile others’ program, but to the people who didn’t know Swift or Objective-C at all, compiling other people’s program is so difficult to do. So this passage will tell you how to compile existed project in XCode.

Contents

Prepare

There are two ways to install project’s dependency, so judge it from project files.

You may saw some projects tree like this: ![Cartfile Project][1]
Look at the last two files, they start by Cartfile. You need to process these project in the step Carthage.

Or you saw others are like this: ![CocoaPods Project][2]
You can see Podfile in this project, to complie this kind of projects, see step CocoaPods.

Carthage

Carthage is a light dependency installer for Swift or Objective-C. Different from CocoaPods, it installes the packages whichever you need but not all packages.

For more information, see [Carthage][3].

First, you should install brew, a software which can patch your macOS with some open source packages.

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This Command Line Will Install Homebrew.

Then, execute it to update your brew.

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brew update

Last, install Carthage by

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This Command Line Will Install Carthage.

CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a long-standing third party package manager, but it is too huge.

Compile

First, you should download the XCode from App Store. And you should start it to finish the first runing config and download the Command Line Tools for XCode.

Clone Project

Clone your project from github in XCode, you should press the button Clone an existing project.![XCode Main Window][4].

In this window, you should fill the textfiled with your project link, like https://github.com/hulizhen/cuImage or ssh://[email protected]:hulizhen/cuImage.git.![Clone Window][5]

Notice: You can fill your github account link in the textfiled and check the project you stared. Like this ![Stared Window][6]

Press Clone, you will get the project.

NOTICE: THIS BLOG IS NOT FINISHED, AND SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG BECAUSE I DID NOT TEST IT AT ALL

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