# "the project file cannot be parsed" says XCODE of my project from the Introjucer

**URL:** <https://forum.juce.com/t/the-project-file-cannot-be-parsed-says-xcode-of-my-project-from-the-introjucer/15453>\
**Category:** MacOSX and iOS\
**Created:** [September 1, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/the-project-file-cannot-be-parsed-says-xcode-of-my-project-from-the-introjucer/15453 "2015-09-01T19:33:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![onar3d](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/onar3d/32/4972_2.png) [@onar3d](https://forum.juce.com/u/onar3d)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/the-project-file-cannot-be-parsed-says-xcode-of-my-project-from-the-introjucer/15453/1 "2015-09-01T19:33:17Z")

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Using Xcode 6.4 with the latest Juce tip, i try for the first time to build my juce project for OSX (I've been developing it for ages on win only).

I keep getting "the project file cannot be parsed" when I try to open the xcode project created by the introjucer however...

How could I go about fixing this?

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Thanks!

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**Author:** ![jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@jules](https://forum.juce.com/u/jules)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/the-project-file-cannot-be-parsed-says-xcode-of-my-project-from-the-introjucer/15453/2 "2015-09-01T19:36:04Z")

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Definitely not a general problem - if you can figure out what's different in your project from everyone else's, let me know and we'll fix it!

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**Author:** ![onar3d](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/onar3d/32/4972_2.png) [@onar3d](https://forum.juce.com/u/onar3d)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/the-project-file-cannot-be-parsed-says-xcode-of-my-project-from-the-introjucer/15453/3 "2015-09-15T06:02:00Z")

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Hi!

I figured out what it was:

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Simply putting garbage (in my case windows-style absolute paths to files) under "Header search paths" and "Extra library search paths" is what broke it. I had copy pasted them in from my Windows build target settings and then forgottem to fix them.

Not a mistake that many are likely to make, unless they have 0 experience with a mac, until suddenly they decite to compile code on it, as I did :D

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**Author:** ![edc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c0e974/32.png) [@edc](https://forum.juce.com/u/edc)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/the-project-file-cannot-be-parsed-says-xcode-of-my-project-from-the-introjucer/15453/4 "2017-06-24T15:52:55Z")

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I know this is an old post, but I recently came across this error too. In my case, it was fixed by removing spaces in the ‘Bundle Identifier’ entry.