Re: Newbie question
Re: Newbie question
- Subject: Re: Newbie question
- From: Jack Repenning <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:14:30 -0700
On Apr 14, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Conrad Nolte wrote:
While trying to build any of the examples (i.e. the currency
converter ) I get the message:
"Couldn't run '/usr/bin/osacompile' because it does not refer to an
accessible executable."
Going through the archives of xcode-users I found a case in which
following quotes appeared:
"I imagine that Xcode has no real PATH so it doesn't know where it
is. That's why you always see /usr/bin/gcc-3.3 whenever it tries to
compile something."
This has nothing to do with your reported error. PATH is something
used to find programs when you *don't* provide the slashy bits at the
front. But since your error message does show "/usr/bin/", it doesn't
need PATH, and nothing about PATH is gonna save you.
"It's a new feature, from the 1.1 release notes:
The native build system looks at the CC and CPLUSPLUS flags when
determining the path of the compiler for C/Objective-C and C++/
Objective-C++ files, respectively. It also looks at LD and
LDPLUSPLUS when linking. If any of these build settings are
defined, they override the compiler and linker paths that would
otherwise have been chosen. This is done for compatibility with
Project Builder and with common makefiles."
This has nothing to do with your reported error. While you might have
a "path" problem (rather than a "PATH" problem, discounted above), you
do not have a CC, CPLUSPLUS, C, Objective-C, C++, Objective-C++, LD,
or LDPLUSPLUS problem; you have an osacompile problem.
This does not help me in solving my problem.
Indeed.
What do I have to do in order to be able to successfully build the
example projects that came with XCode?
Well that's still a good question. They work for me, not that that
helps you much. What does this command print?
file /usr/bin/osacompile
It ought to say something like:
/usr/bin/osacompile: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
/usr/bin/osacompile (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc
/usr/bin/osacompile (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386
but the error message you report essentially says it won't. Maybe if
we see what it *does* say, we'll have a hint what's busticated.
Similarly, what does this say:
ls -l /usr/bin/osacompile
It ought to say something like
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 78432 Sep 23 2007 /usr/bin/osacompile
... but may be it won't, and that will give us a clue.
-==-
Jack Repenning
email@hidden
Project Owner
SCPlugin
http://scplugin.tigris.org
"Subversion for the rest of OS X"
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