Swift dependency visualizer not working

[wds8807]

Xcode 13.1 Here is the result after running the line:

First of all, it's a large project, it should be way more than 5 "directories". Second of all, index.html is empty. Please help.

[kristofkalai]

I think it needs an older version of Xcode (if I remember correctly one year ago I managed to work with this tool) - I installed Xcode 12.0 but then it said that on my OS it cannot run (macOS 12.2.1). I cannot downgrade, so if anyone want to try it out, I would be grateful 🙏

[yermukhanbet]

Are there any plans for updating the project for Xcode 13.1 version availability?

[kristofkalai]

I managed to use Xcode 12.0 on macOS 12.2.1 (with this solution), and it worked so indeed the problem was that the Xcode 13.x is too new. (Then I just have to figure it out how to upgrade (downgrade?) my huge project to that Xcode 12.0 can build it.)

[kristofkalai]

A (partial?) solution came sooner than I expected 🎉 with this type of command we can use a little workaround since it seems to me that this project is no more under maintenance.

• Simply build your project (I used Xcode 13.3.1 but I strongly think that the object files' structures remain the same across releases),
• reach out the DerivedData folder (which for me was /Users/<myName>/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData), look for you project folder (something like <myProject>-randomcharacters - if you have so many folders that you cannot filter it out, you can delete all the content of the DerivedData folder - but in this case you have to build your project again),
• inside this folder there will be a Build/Intermediates.noindex/<appName>.build/<schemeName>-<targetName>/<appName>.build/Objects-normal/x86_64 folder, which contains - possibly a lot of - .o files,
• use the command I mentioned earlier (it should look something like this: ./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -d -p /Users/<myName>/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/<myProject>-randomcharacters/Build/Intermediates.noindex/<myProject>.build/<schemeName>-<targetName>/<myProject>.build/Objects-normal/x86_64 > origin.js ; open index.html),
• the result is opened in a browser.

I will have to check how correct the results are, but for me (and for my use case) it seems legit.

[AppDevGuy]

Using Xcode 15.4, I can can confirm for my own project this command worked:

./generate-objc-dependencies-to-json.rb -d -p "/Users/<My Name>/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/<Project Name>-cefzotbnlkwxumfksxtdoctopkzi/Build/Intermediates.noindex/<Project Name>.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/<Project Name>.build/Objects-normal/arm64" > origin.js ; open index.html 

Thanks @stateman92