Auto Linking Explained When object files get linked at the final build stage, the linker needs to know which libraries to link against. For example, if you add #import to an implementation file, you need to also add -framework AppKit to the linker flags. Auto Linking aims to remove the latter step, i.e., it aims to derive the library linker flags from the import statements in your code. Developers do not need to add any framework/library linker flags anymore, they can just start using any fr...