PList Compiler lets you build localized and non-localized plist files from plc and ploc source files. It is a script that you execute as a Shell Script Build Phase within your XCode project and which takes care of generating automatically the property list files for your packaged applications, bundles, frameworks, plugins, etc. Among all its features:

• supports many different encodings (including utf-8 and utf-16)
• supports many predefined variables (YEAR, DATE, OUTPUT_FILENAME, etc.)
• supports all the XCode internal variables
• supports conditional preprocessor macros, defines and includes
• supports localized strings files
• comes with a detailed help file

• added support for -Dmacro[=value] options on the command line
• improved generation of Pkginfo file with support of PKGINFO_SIGNATURE and PKGINFO_TYPE preprocessor macros
• simplified the variable substitution mechanism (removed need of double underscores)
• backslash at end of line is interpreted as a line continuation character
• added support for soft links to specify the plc file or a prefix file on the command line
• added variable substitution when parsing "boolean" type (Patch 1683197)
• added -I command line option to specify additional include paths
• support for variable substitution in #include paths
• fixed bug where #ifndef was broken when used with a predefined variable such as __PLIST__ (Bug 1699538)
• fixed an inconsistency related to end of line character in preamble
• fixed quoting issues with #if/#elif macros when testing a string value