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This is a post in my series “Road to Xcode.” I am currently reading Become An Xcoder by Bert Altenburg, Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin.

05: Compiling and Running a Program

Today I finally broke into launching Xcode and compiling my first example. As you might have guessed the little screenshot above is indeed my example including the debug output (which is all the app really does). This chapter was simply a plunge into using Xcode. I got a little frustrated when I couldn’t find this damn “Run Log window” they referenced when running the example for the first time. So let me help those who might be in the same dilemma. The “Run Log window” is no longer in Xcode 3.x but is now called the “Console” and it doesn’t get launched by default. In the Xcode preferences in the Debugging section I have On Start: Show Console set as well as Auto Clear Debug Console enabled.

Besides mucking about with the debugger and playing with breakpoints and error handling in Xcode, not much coding was really happening. The example does compile and since it is GUIless, the Console is needed to see its output. I didn’t run into any issues running through this chapter besides the stupid “Run Log window.”