[itistoday]

Ok, I have a massive project I've been editing using jEdit. Today I thought maybe I'd try editing it in Xcode. So I've spent over an hour now trying to get my files into an Xcode project and have it compile and build my jar file with my ant build.xml script, but to no luck. For a company that touts ease of use, its development studio is one of the most non-userfriendly things I've ever seen. That aside though, could someone help me out?

[PBG4 User]

Create a new Java project. Now I'm not exactly sure what the heading is called but I believe it's called "Files". Right-click (or CTRL+click) "Files", then select "Import existing files". A file open window will come up. Navigate to the directory with your source files, highlight and click OK/Open. Another screen will come up asking if you want to copy the files into your project directory. Check the box if this is what you desire.

I've only done Obj-C coding in XCode, I usually use (believe it or not) bluej for Java stuff.

[itistoday]

Well yeah, that's what I was doing, but then I had to deal with the existence of "Test" targets and whatnot, and an ant file that was not mine... Sure I could edit that, but I'd like to just create an empty project and put all my stuff into that. Why does Xcode make this so difficult? (I hate the way Xcode does targets... why is there GCC information there when I want just javac?? How do I set it to use javac??)

[itistoday]

Ok, I think I've figured it out. You create an "empty ant project", right-click, add your files to it, and then double click on the target, and under "Build Tool Configuration" set the Directory to the directory that contains your build.xml file. That should do it (worked for me).

Edit: One more thing: I personally find it easier to not select the checkbox to copy the files over. I just let Xcode create virtual representations of those files, and edit the current ones I have directly.