On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Richard Kennaway
<email@hidden> wrote:
How can an XCode program detect whether it was built in Debug or
Release
configuration (or any other, for that matter)? In Visual Studio,
_DEBUG is
defined as a preprocessor symbol for Debug versions, but I can't find
anything similar in the project settings in XCode, or the docs. I
can
manually add _DEBUG to the settings, but that's tedious in a
project with a
dozen build targets. Is there anything automatically #defined?
There is no need to add it to a dozen build targets. Add it to the
project, and it will be inherited by all of the targets in said
project.
The whole point of DEBUG/RELEASE macros is that some build
configurations #define one and the rest #define the other. It wouldn't
make sense to #define DEBUG for all the build configurations in a
project (at least not to me).
When this topic came up a few weeks ago Chris Espinosa said
>>>>>
At this point there's too much diversity in configuration names and
developers' existing macros for us to impose this on projects
unilaterally.
<<<<<
I really have to disagree. The Xcode team is letting the perfect be
the enemy of the good. It would be good for the project templates to
have DEBUG/RELEASE macros that matched the Debug/Release build
configurations. That they can't be all things to all developers isn't
a reason not to implement this. If there is a pre-defined macro then a
developer can convert that #define into their own macro in the PCH
file. This would be good. I don't see how having these macros pre-
defined could cause a problem for anyone and they will solve a problem
for most developers.
That this question comes up repeatedly on this list must mean something.
FWIW, CodeWarrior had these macros predefined in its project
stationery and I never heard a complaint about it.
If I could figure out how to fix this in the project templates for
myself I would.
--
Brian Stern
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