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07 May 2013

Careful with those paths in XCode

XCode

Are you getting a clang error that you can’t track down?  “What the heck is ‘clang: error: ‘-I-‘ not supported, please use -iquote instead‘!?!”  Oh compiler gods please help this poor soul.  Well hopefully you haven’t burned a day trying to solve this by tracking down project includes, compiler versions, and lord knows what else.  The answer turns out to be head-slappingly easy, you’ve got an unsupported character somewhere in the project path.  In our case we had something like this:

 

/Users/joeblow/Devel/Projects/WARU – Joe/testDir/waru/WARU.xcodeporj

[whitespace]

Notice the hyphen in there, that was the cause of all the pain.  The fix was simply to remove the hyphen:

 

/Users/timwmartin/Devel/Projects/WARU/testDir/waru/WARU.xcodeporj

[whitespace]

Hope this helps someone out there!