Hi, Yes, a real annoyance and I can imagine a new developer getting very frustrated (which I suppose is good in one way since they might decide it’s not for them and it will mean more work for the rest of us!).
Yes, sorry, I must have copied/pasted the wrong gibberish! I’ve fixed it now, on this particular error, there was nothing that I could see that helped, although sometimes you can decipher what is wrong. It would be so nice to have a decent error message for this, but as you say, wishful thinking! Thanks a lot Dave > On 17 Feb 2015, at 17:23, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Feb 17, 2015, at 9:07 AM, Dave <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Why is it that Link Error produce a gibberish error message? It’s been like >> this in XCode since as long as I can remember and I’ve often wondered why >> they just don’t produce a decent meaningful error message. > > It varies. Sometimes you get the real error message, and sometimes the iuild > navigator just says the linker failed. :( > > There are a lot of cases where Xcode’s issue navigator either doesn’t show > the real error message, or shows a whole ton of irrelevant cascading messages > (like ‘lipo’ failures.) It’s just an annoyance to me, and I’ve written it off > as one of the many flagrant bugs that will never ever get fixed, but I’ll bet > it can be a real roadblock for new developers who haven’t learned how to read > these tea leaves yet. > > There’s a delightful rumor that iOS 9 will be a no-new-features, > just-improve-stuff release (like OS X 10.6). If so, maybe Xcode 7 will come > along with it and just fix all the obvious bugs that have piled up over the > years. Wishful thinking… > >> How can I figure what is wrong from this: > > That’s not the error message, nor even any of the output. That’s just the > command-line that invoked the linker. The output, including the error, would > come immediately after that. > > Also, the error output is usually visible before you flip open the raw-mode > widget and see the entire gnarly command line, so normally you don’t have to > scan through all that noise. > > —Jens
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