XCode not building file.

Question

I'm trying to migrate an existing Windows built CS3 plugin to MacOS, which shouldn't be a problem as all the proper WIN_ENV and MAC_ENV directives were used in the creation of the plugin.
I followed the instructions for creating the XCode project as listed in the "getting started with adobe illustrator cs3 development" document but when I build, I get a directory instead of a .aip file, and illustrator ignores the plugin if I copy the directory over.
Now in the instructions, it says to create a "Loadable Bundle" target, and I'm wondering if this step is the cause, or if it's some option that's buried. I compared the XCode project file to one of the sample-code project files, and tried to make the build's information to match better than it did by default, but still no luck. I get a directory that has a .aip extension, with files under it, but no binary file. In the directory is a binary file w/o extension, and I've tried attaching the .aip extension to that and see if that works, but illustrator still doesn't load the plugin.
I don't know what base information you'd need, but I'm using a G5 Mac under 10.4.11 with XCode 2.5, using ppc and i386 for the output, ppc based for G4 in the build for a bit of leeway, but I've tried singling it to ppc and g5 as well in the build settings with no change.

Answer 1

Thanks for the tips, but the problem is that the folder is acting like a folder, and I do't need to do a "show package contents" to see the contents.
No there is no output in the console window or any errors showing up.
However, I have fixed that problem. I found in the porting-guide that there is a template for XCode to help make sure things are set up, but it wouldn't work on XCode 2.5 as the directory to put it into didn't exist. So I downgraded my XCode to 2.4.1, which then had the directory, and then used the Illustrator SDK template project to rebuild my project file and I now get a proper bundled .aip "file/folder" that had the correct icon.
I wish I could give a more detailed information to what was missing, but it seems that the steps in the getting-started guide for creating the XCode project from scratch is missing a step or two. the main thing I can see different from a glance is that the templated project's Targets area has information inside the groups created, where the setup from scratch did not (especially for example, "Link Binary with Libraries" now has a "carbon.framework" underneath it, which did not exist from the steps outlined in the getting-started guide.
So after doing that, and rebuilding the project /based/ from the template, it compiles, as it did before, and illustrator does load it, so I'm into debugging the code which is best suited for another topic.