Using OCLint in Xcode

Prerequisite¶

• oclint-xcodebuild Manual
• Apple’s official xcodebuild Manual Page
• Using OCLint with xcodebuild

or

• Using OCLint with xctool

or

• Using OCLint with xcpretty

Background¶

This idea was originally posted in this blog. We hope to share it with more developers, and hope to motivate more ideas.

Setting up Target¶

• Add a new target in the project, and choose Aggregate as the template.

• Name the new target, here we simply call it “OCLint”, you could have more than one targets that focus on different aspects of the code analysis.

• Add a new build phase in the target we just created. Choose And Run Script for the phase type.

• In the script editor, we could enter the script which does the real work. We can also modify the script from this very generic version and its folks. We may need to change the xcodebuild options to use a particular scheme or target. In addition, based on the discussions we had, we can decide whether to use clean and dry runfeatures.
• For xctool users, the script can be largely simplified to something like this.
• For xcpretty users, the script is also much simplier, check it out from this gist.

Running Analysis¶

• Choose the correct build scheme, here we choose OCLint.

• Click to build, or use the shortcut Command+B.
• When the progress bar scrolls to the very right, the analysis is done, then we can check out the analysis results same as compile warnings.