I actually automate Instruments to get finer grain information of what an application is actually doing. To automated Instruments, according to Apple’s documentation, all you need is the DTPerformanceSession.framework… but, you actually need more than that, and you have to find where the dependencies are located. Here are all of the libraries you need: DTInstrumentsCP.framework … Read more
ApplicationServices.framework and ImageIO.framework use their own version of libJPEG/libTIFF so if you were to use the standard version from the web, you would have a conflict when the application loads. This appears to only affect Xcode 4.X.
I’ve been using Google’s C++ Testing Framework for some time now, but as soon as I tried to use C++11 in Xcode, I was met with some issues about the tuple header file not being found. Unfortunately for me, that means I had to leave that header out of my project using the following option: … Read more
I found that when you duplicate a Xcode project, say to make experimental changes you don’t want in the original project, you find that the newly duplicated project actually points to the original project. That is because there is a workspace file within the xcodeproj bundle, project.xcworkspace, that contains the name of the original project, … Read more
Perforce published a knowledge base article on how to use Xcode’s built in behaviors to check out a file: Automatically checking out files for edit in Xcode 4.3 This is nifty and similar to an article I saw posted on stackoverflow by user Mark Thalman. Update I actually have AppleScripts that will do some of … Read more
This is a little old, but I wanted to share the link any for those looking for CPUID on the MacOS; download-maccpuid/
I saw this demo done at WWDC on how to turn off warnings, only when truly warranted, while compiling with clang: #if defined (__clang__) #pragma clang diagnostic push #pragma clang diagnostic ignored “-Wunused-value” #endif // defined __clang__ void ImAUselessLittleFunction ( int pleaseUseMe ) { pleaseUseMe; // Nope, you are not going to be used } … Read more
Use either __clang__ or __llvm__ defines. More information can be found at stackoverflow
I had to do some fancy debugging of a C++ dylib and while I was searching around the internet, I came accross this article from Apple: C++ features in MacOS X. I also found two cool articles that describe well how the dlopen application works and what happens to your symbols when an application bundle … Read more
Xcode 4 has a lot of cool new features. One of my favorites is it’s ability to tell you when you introduced a bug in your code; the feature is similar to a spell check found in a word processor. Usually, these cool tools are only available for Objective-C, but because of LLVM, this feature … Read more