Xcode 4.3 error message: NSAutoreleasePool is unavailable in main.m
Filed under: Apple, HTML, XHTML, iPad, iPhone, Objective-c, Xcode
Question: I am trying to create and run a PhoneGap HTML 5 application for iOS 5 but I am getting error message of ‘NSAutoreleasePool is unavailable: not available in automatic reference counting mode’ while building main.m. SDK: Xcode 4.3 Machine: iMAC with Lion.
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HP 2820/2840 Print and Scan on Mac OS X Lion
Question: I upgraded my iMac from Snow Leopard to Lion. My HP Color Laserjet 2840 prints but I can’t scan from the device any longer. The HP Director is grayed out. I found your post about HP 2820 scanning with Snow Leopard. Do you have an update?
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Xcode 4.2 with iOS 5 to test location services in simulator
Filed under: iPad, iPhone, Objective-c, Programming, Xcode
Question: I’m an iPhone programmer and have a problem. I should test and debug my iPhone/iPad application with location services for different GPS positions and routes. Do you have a static library or module that produces GPS coordinates in the preset range?
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Trace EXC_BAD_ACCESS exception in iPhone app with Xcode 4
Question: Recently I upgraded my universal iPhone project to Xcode 4 and ran immediately into an EXC_BAD_ACCESS exception in my application when running on an iPad. My code runs without errors on iPhone. I don’t know where it has come from and how to find the source code line in error. My app quits without saying anything and the debugger jumps to the main.m module. Console messages do not help either.
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Upgraded Xcode 4 constantly crashes when opening XIB file
Filed under: iPad, iPhone, Objective-c, Programming, Xcode
Question: I have some “old” iPhone projects. Since I upgraded from Xcode 3.2 to Xcode 4 it constantly crashes when I open an XIB file. The same project builds without errors in Xcode 3. The error log message is: “Encountered multiple assertions. First assertion was: ASSERTION FAILURE…” and a long list of stack info.
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Xcode 4 build gcc-4.2 error, execvp: No such file or directory error
Filed under: iPad, iPhone, Objective-c, Programming, Xcode
Question: After downgrading from Xcode 4.2 beta to Xcode SDK 4.02 I am facing new error messages:
- “gcc-4.2: error trying to exec ‘/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin/arm-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1′: execvp: No such file or directory”, and
– “Command /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 failed with exit code 255″.
What’s is this for and what to do now?
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