If you want to change what your host application is dependent on, without having to rebuild it, you can use the install_name_tool app for changing this: install_name_tool -change oldreference newreference appname install_name_tool -change /usr/lib/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib @executable_path/../Frameworks/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib MySuperApp This is pretty useful for cases where you might have a dynamic library located in a static location, but … Read more
Continuing my iPhone development, I had a hard time finding the default icon sizes.
iPhone development is not the same as Mac OS X development
To prevent Visual Studio from defining it’s own min and max functions, include the following in the top of your implementation file: #ifdef _WIN32 #ifndef NOMINMAX #define NOMINMAX #endif #endif You can also define NOMINMAX in the Preprocessor Definitions option in the Common Properties->C/C++->Proprocessor property page.
Ever since I started to do 64-bit development, I had a problem with the Boost headers producing a ton of implicit conversion warnings in Xcode. This is due to the fact that I am compiling with the following flag: -Wshorten-64-to-3 I got this idea from both Herb Sutter and the Viva 64 website, where you … Read more
If you have the need to create a tag from your current source code, you can use the copy command from the shell of your preference: $ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/MineMineItsMine/trunk http://svn.example.com/repos/MineMineItsMine/tags/release-2.0 -m “Creating 2.0 release of the ‘MineMineItsMine’ project.”
In the course of the day, I actually open several web pages related to the work I do. The browser, for better or for worse, has become part of my workflow. After a while, it can get annoying to constantly have to log in to separate pages to see all of the data I need … Read more
I was having a nice coding day. Xcode was behaving nicely and all of my code seem to behave like I wanted to … then … Crash. Okay. I can handle a crash. But. Looking at the call stack from the crash, something didn’t look right. In the call stack there was a reference to … Read more
One of the cool things about Xcode and GDB is that you can create custom breakpoints that could be set up by calling a function within your own project. GDB supports C functionality in their conditional checks, but for me, I found this functionality to be particularly helpful when paired with convenience variables. So, let’s … Read more
I recently had to build a file for multiple operating systems and had to figure out a way to enable a feature that is only available on Mac OS X 10.5 and greater, and Windows. Here’s how I did it: #if (MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5) || defined (_WIN32) #include #endif Now, technically there is no harm … Read more