objective c - Xcode custom shell scripts are slowing down the compiling time

Question

Testing any changes to my Xcode project has become an exercise in patience whenever I build. After all the source files have compiled, I get the following message in the activity window at the top of Xcode:

"Running 3 of 3 Custom Shell Scripts"

I have not added any of my own custom shell scripts but I am using quite a few dependencies via Cocoapods and I am using 2 frameworks for the build environment, Crashlytics and Tapstream. Crashlytics requires you add a run script in the build phases, other than that I don't know where the other ones are coming from and they appear to be the bottleneck in my build time.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on and how i possibly speed it up?

Answer 1

I can't enlighten you but I can tell you how I stopped mine from running. This also happened after installing Cocoapods. In my main project's Target, under Build Phases, I noticed two entries entitled Check Pods Manifest.lock and another called Copy Pods Resources.

Under both there was an unchecked option Run script only when installing. I checked both and at least for now my projects build and run fine without running the scripts.

This is kind of a crappy answer because I can't really give you any more information, and it might not even work for your case, so hopefully someone comes along and enlightens us.

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POSSIBLE EXTERNAL BUNDLE ISSUES

So I just had a frustrating experience debugging an issue where a pod installed library's NSLocalized strings file weren't working. Turns out it was because I checked the option mentioned above. Pods-resources.sh, which had the lines to install the bundle, wasn't running in debug mode. It was only running when installing - of course! Something to watch out for.

More info in this question:

NSLocalizedStringFromTable not working in CocoaPod dependency