Re: Not finding libraries
Re: Not finding libraries
- Subject: Re: Not finding libraries
- From: Howard Moon <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:53:21 -0800
That sounds like a very good solution!
Thanks, Bernie!
-Howard
> On Dec 29, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Bernie Maier <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Howard Moon:
>
>> Initially, the problem was that the paths to two of the libraries includes
>> spaces in it. I was using “Other Linker Flags” to include the libraries,
>> and quoting the paths so that they would remain as one item, both in the
>> settings in the Xcode UI, and in the actual link step.
>>
>> However, every time I opened the project, the paths were getting mangled,
>> adding ‘\’ escape characters in my settings before each of the quotes
>> and spaces in those libraries’ paths. That in turn caused the linker to
>> fail to find the libraries. Apparently it likes to add the escape characters
>> itself, and did not like their inclusion in the paths in the settings.
>>
>> On top of that, the NEXT time I opened the project, ANOTHER escape character
>> would be added before (after?) each ‘\’! And this would keep going,
>> adding more and more escape characters each time I open the project.
>
> I haven't tried this for myself, but I think you may avoid some of these problems if you moved these settings into .xcconfig files. You could define your build variables there, correctly quoted to cope with the spaces, and the Xcode UI will not futz with them.
>
> Personally, I'm a big fan of .xcconfig files and move as many build settings into them as possible. But to get started you probably only need minimal versions: a debug one and a release one.
>
>
> --Bernie
>
>
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