all day long scientists, alchemist and every kind of esotericists working on one subject: make our life ‘better’; meaning to be able to live as long as it’s possible (preferably infinite long).

let’s assume that one day we reach this point; everybody can live as long as they want – see i’m even giving here the freedom of choice, meaning you actually do NOT have to live forever; you can choose that you want to die. So yeah we are the point where every possible sickness could be cured 100%, and what then? We are going to sit there and watch the life as a movie? or then we will start to do things against the stuff we could really do something. Like stop killing each other…

Come on, look around yourselves just for a second; what do you see? all the people around you are lying to you in one way or another, total ignorance about everything except your shitty life; who cares what happens in burma (but i could write any fucken’ country’s name); what the hack, “it’s none of my buisness”, right…? you just worry about your precious little fucked up life, that there every little lie fits together, that every morning you wake up you still have a fucken made up reason to wake up for…

yeah, look for that cure of yours (whatever that is: medicine, money, books, thoughts, lies, prices, fame etc.) and make yourself believe that it fills that little whole in you.

After googling over the whole night i slept a bit woke up and found the solution for the following problem:

I’ve added a new static library target to my Xcode project, let’s call itt foobar. Quite supprisingly it built right away, even tought there are a lot of dirty little system dependent #ifdefs in the code.

Anyways i was really happy that i could compile it. After a while I switched the active build configuration from Debug to Release, and tried to build the whole project. Suddenly the following errors came up:
‘error: template with C linkage’

and some other error becuase it was trying to include a system header instead of my own (even though i included it with quotes e.g #include “foobaar.h”).

I switched back to Debug configuration mode – thinking that before it was working it my work now as well -.... nothing!

This is the point where i started to google and try to find out what could be the problem. You’ll get couple of pointers how this might be fixed, here’s a little list:

1) for fixing the template error, one where suggesting that i should use the:

#ifdef __cplusplus
 extern C {
 #include "templateerror.h"
 }
 #endif

wrapper because it really tries to compile as standard C instead of C++. I’ve checked the Build Console and it was telling:
bc.
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -x c++

so it was not trying to do that

2) for fixing the misincluding i should use -iquote option, so that path is going to be used for quoted includes.

None of these helped!

So i switched to the old console and tried the following: copied the whole gcc line as XCode tries to compile my sources (Build Result) and removed the gcc’s argument one by one, to see what is really causing here the problem.

I’ve found out that if i remove the -I*own-target-headers.hmap option, then it compiles right away. I tried to figure out how can i tweak this option in Xcode, but there was nothing about this. I was about to give up on this, when I saw the Copy Headers option of my foobar target – and of course there was all the headers that was belonging to this library. I figured I should remove all those headers from there (anyways i don’t want to copy them anywhere, since i’m trying to make here a static library after all). I tried to build again the library….. OF COURSE, NOTHING!

And here i was just sitting and thinking, when i remembered: things came up when i toggled the ‘Active Build Configuration’, so I TOGGLED IT NOW AGAIN, and guess what, IT WAS PERFECTLY WORKING!

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, xcode has some serious flaws!!!

Anyways if this helped you, drop a comment, i’m really curious how many people getting into this problem as well.

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Content-Centric Networking. Worth to check it out… there’s a google tech talk from Van Jacobsen. It’s getting interesting after 35 mins – see this is when Annodex+CMML would get into picture. just to have a link to the 35th minute of the 1 hour 21 minutes video… It’s a shame that they don’t have this neither in google video nor in YouTube… A time based anchoring in youtube would be very very handy…