After ther Mac application is launched:
Log error: CGSWindowShmemCreateWithPort failed on port 0
and when the application quit:
No error handler for XPC error: Connection invalid
Appear with Xcode 15.4 but not with 12.4
As repported by Steve4442 in "Can someone explain this message" https://Forums.Developer.Apple.com/Forums/Thread/727803
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The code don't use "windowNumbersWithOptions"
Can I ignore this log message ?
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Every time a (valid) vector instruction is added to the .s file, xcode report an error
(without vector instruction the .s file compile correctly)
By example
vand q8, q8, q10
found in https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/104424
give an error
What I am missing to tell xcode to accept vector instruction ?
Topic:
Programming Languages
SubTopic:
General
I have a relatively unique project layered with file types (top to bottom) SwiftUI, Swift, Objective C, and C. The purpose of this layering is that I have a C language firmware application framework for development of firmware on custom electronic boards.
Specifically, I use the standard C preprocessor in specific ways to make data driven structures, not code. There are header files shared between the firmware project and the Xcode iPhone app to set things like the BLE protocol and communication command/reply protocols, etc. The app is forced to adhere to that defined by the firmware, rather than rely a design to get it right.
The Objective C code is mainly to utilize the Bluetooth stack provided by iOS. I specifically use this approach to allow C files to be compiled. Normally, everything has worked perfectly, but a serious and obtuse problem just surfaced a couple days ago.
My important project was created long ago. More recently, I started a new project using most of the same technology, but its project is newer. Ironically, it continues to work perfectly, but ironically the older project stopped working. (Talking about the Xcode iOS side.)
Essentially, the Objective C handling of the C preprocessor is not fully adhering to the standard C preprocessing in one project. It's very confusing because there is no code change. It seems Xcode was updated, but looks like the project was not updated, accordingly? I'm guessing there is some setting that forces Objective C to adhere to the standard C preprocessor rules.
I did see a gnu compiler version that did not get updated compared to the newer project, but updating that in the Build Settings did not fix the problem.
The error is in the title:
Token is not a valid binary operator in a preprocessor subexpression.
The offending macro appears in a header file, included in several implementation files. Compiling a single implementation files isolates the issue somewhat. An implementation with no Objective C objects compiles just fine. If there are Objective C objects then I get the errors. Both cases include the same header.
It seems like the Objective C compiler, being invoked, uses a different C preprocessor parser, rather than the standard. I guess I should mention the bridging header file where these headers exist, as well. The offending header with the problem macro appears as an error in the bridging header if a full build is initiated.
Is there an option somewhere, that forces the Objective C compiler to honor the standard C processor? Note, one project seems to.
#define BLE_SERVICE_BLANK( enumTag, uuid, serviceType )
#define BLE_CHARACTERISTIC_BLANK( enumTag, uuid, properties, readPerm, writePerm, value)
#define BLE_SERVICE_ENUM_COUNTER( enumTag, uuid, serviceType) +1
#define BLE_CHARACTERISTIC_ENUM_COUNTER( enumTag, uuid, properties, readPerm, writePerm, value) +1
#if 0 BLE_SERVICE_LIST(BLE_SERVICE_ENUM_COUNTER, BLE_CHARACTERISTIC_BLANK) > 0
#define USING_BLE_SERVICE
...
#if 0 BLE_SERVICE_LIST(BLE_SERVICE_BLANK, BLE_CHARACTERISTIC_ENUM_COUNTER) > 0
#define USING_BLE_CHARACTERISTIC
...
token is not a valid binary operator in a preprocessor subexpression
refers to the comparison. BLE_SERVICE_LIST() does a +1 for each item in the list. There is no further expansion. One counts services. The other counts characteristics. The errors are associated with the comparisons.
Hello I was wondering if there is a way to ensure that a C program I am writing can only write to 1 virtual page. I am trying to test how space efficient different Mallocs are and I need a way to ensure that the OS will not try to swap out pages making the space efficiency test pointless. I am on Mac OS Sonoma v14.5.
Greetings! I am actively working on porting x64 code to Apple Silicon now that the time is nigh and part of the fundamentals of our software is a coroutine library for handling cooperative multitasking of GUI operations on the main thread. I was hoping to get the locations of the stack pointer and frame pointer in jmp_buf so, after setjmp() can redirect them to the primary handling routines in our coroutine library that handles the cooperative scheduling (which replaced and ported the old classic MP routines) which worked for PowerPC, i386 and x64.
Any thoughts on where in the jmp_buf these might be located? I didn't see anything in the XNU open source.
Any advice would be much obliged instead of having to dive in and re-implement these routines in assembly myself!
Topic:
Programming Languages
SubTopic:
General
I'm working on a cross-platform C# application that converts HTML content to PDF. The goal is to render dynamic HTML pages (including CSS and JavaScript) as high-quality, printable PDF files. Additionally, I need to support features like adding headers/footers, securing PDFs with passwords, and controlling user permissions. While everything works well on Windows, I need some help rendering consistency and handling permissions on MacOS.
Hi there, I’m having issue with the python3 installation provided by Xcode’s toolchain. I’m currently writing a LLDB plugin, using the LLDB python API, to allow the user to visualize audio data from the current debugged program in a GUI, using tkinter and matplotlib. I'm using those because I'm developing a cross-platform plugin, as I'm initially a Linux developer who wants to make this available to my fellow Apple audio devs.
My issue arise at least on two setups
MacOS 12.7.6 Monterey with Xcode 14.2
MacOS 14 with Xcode 15.4 (not my machine)
Because I wanna support Xcode’s toolchain, I want to use Xcode’s lldb. Xcode’s lldb uses Xcode’s provided python, which I’m having issues with when loading tkinter.The issue can be reproduced like this :
> xcrun python3 -c "import tkinter;tkinter._test()"
macOS 12 (1207) or later required, have instead 12 (1206) !
zsh: abort xcrun python3 -c "import tkinter;tkinter._test()"
On MacOS 14 the version numbers are :
macOS 14 (1407) or later required, have instead 14 (1406) !
You can see it fails to load tkinter. From what I understood so far, it looks like the tkinter/tcl/tk version distributed with Xcode is not supported by MacOS ?I checked and the imported tkinter module is definitely the one provided by Xcode’s toolchain :
# Checking where tkinter is installed
> fd "^tkinter$" /Applications/Xcode.app
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/tkinter/
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/tkinter/
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/future/moves/tkinter/
# Checking that Xcode python uses the right module - it matches
> xcrun python3 -c "import tkinter;print(tkinter.sys.modules['tkinter'])"
<module 'tkinter' from '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/tkinter/__init__.py'>
I can get a working tkinter working by installing it using homebrew or macports, but I’m not able to use it with Xcode’s python installation. I tried overwriting sys.path to force Xcode’s python to import homebrew’s tkinter module, but it still loads Xcode’s tkinter .so.
In the crash report I can see it indeed loads tcl/tk 8.5 and loads _tkinter.cpython-39-darwin.so from Xcode. I could disable the SIP (System Integrity Protection) to force to load another version of the library, but that wouldn’t be something I can ask the users.
On the LLDB forum, they advise against using another python interpreter that the one provided by the toolchain. So is there a way to get the provided tkinter/tcl/tk installation to work ? If not I’m confused about why it’s provided in the first place.
Thanks a lot for your time and please tell me if you have any questions.
PS: if possible i'll post the head of the crash report in the comment of this post
I have a string of the form “Mon 22nd April”. I’m trying to extract the day (i.e. Mon), the date (i.e. 22nd) and the month (i.e. April) using this Applescript:
set originalDateString to “Mon 22nd April”
-- Extract the components by splitting the string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set dayOfWeekAbbrev to text item 1 of originalDateString
set dayOfMonth to text item 2 of originalDateString
set monthName to text item 3 of originalDateString
When I run this on its own it works as expected:
dayOfWeekAbbrev is set to “Mon”
dayOfMonth is set to “22nd”
monthName is set to “April”
When I run this inside a bigger script involving Numbers, the text item delimiters fails to work, no compile or run time errors occur and I end up with:
dayOfWeekAbbrev is set to “M”
dayOfMonth is set to “o”
monthName is set to “n”
I.e the first three characters of the string.
If I replace originalDateString with the literal string “Mon 22nd April” I get the same result. In other words, text items and being recognized as individual characters, no delimiter (or delimiter is null). Totally confused.
hi
i want create a commande line tool for arm64 et intel x86-64
Xcode 16 macbook pro M3
my setting :
and
but my application compile only for arm64
who can explain to me ?
We are seeing a crash on Big Sur 11.7.10 after switching the build system to use Xcode 15
Excerpt from crash
Time Awake Since Boot: 1700 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x4] Symbol missing
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: __ZNSt3__17codecvtIDiDu11__mbstate_tE2idE
Referenced from: /Applications/SecureworksTaegis.app/Contents/MacOS/com.secureworks.agent.daemon.app/Contents/MacOS/com.secureworks.agent.daemon
Expected in: /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib
in /Applications/SecureworksTaegis.app/Contents/MacOS/com.secureworks.agent.daemon.app/Contents/MacOS/com.secureworks.agent.daemon
Build system has the following specs :
ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 14.3.1
BuildVersion: 23D60
Xcode 15.2
Build version 15C500b
CMAKE PROPS
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
set(CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET 11.0)
Hello,
Im developing an app entirely with C++, and I need to call various swift functions because it requires the Swift library.
Ive seen several posts on forums about C++ callbacks and honestly I dont understand how its done exactly. I get the general idea but I am not able to understand it and make it work. I feel like people throw vague ideas and weird function names and everything gets confusing.
Could anyone give me the smallest example that works please ?
Just to make sure you know what I mean, here is an example of what I want to do, but you dont have to generate the code exactly for this, I want an example that I can understand please, but the swift code has to depend on a swift library. I dont want to simply call a swift function that returns x*2 ...
{1} notif.swift file : coded in swift language
include <UserNotifications/UserNotifications.h>
function A that show notification in swift code.
{2} mainwindow.cpp file : coded in C++ language
import notif.swift ??
button connected to slot/function mybuttonclicked.
MainWindow::mybuttonclicked(){
std::string my_result = call function A_from_swift_file(argument_1);
}
--The end ---
I wrote the notif.swift with '?' because I dont know how you include the swift file from your cpp code and I could not find that anywhere. Maybe it is obvious, but I would really appreciate getting some help on this, Thank you everyone
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Programming Languages
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General
Hi!
We are seeing a bit surprising behavior of dispatch_main on macOS where it seems to spawn a different thread instead of preserving the one it gets called from.
Managed to reproduce it in a completely empty command-line tool project in Xcode
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
@autoreleasepool {
dispatch_main();
return 0;
}
}
I put a breakpoint on the line with dispatch_main and see that I am on Thread 1 and inside main function. That makes sense.
I resume execution and pause again. Looking at Thread output in Xcode, I can only see Thread 2.
Thread 1 is gone and the executable keeps on running.
So dispatch_main did what was expected (prevented the process from termination) but throws out the thread it was called from and creates a new one? Is that behavior expected or am I missing something?
Just a brain teaser at this point. But we could not make sense out of it. :)
Hello Apple Team,
I'm trying to import the Audodesk FBX SDK to my Objective-C iOS Project.
The SDK is written in C++, but has support for iOS and the iOS simulator architectures.
I've added the path to the include folder in the Header Search Path
I've also added the paths to libfbxsdk.a in the Library Search Paths
Finally, I've added the libfbxsdk.a file to the Link Binary with Libraries.
However, when I build the project, I get the following error:
building for 'iOS', but linking in object file (/Users/Lond/Documents/v2/Autodesk/iOS/2020.3.7/lib/ios/debug/libfbxsdk.a[28](fbxalloc.cxx.o)) built for 'macOS'
In the terminal, if I type the command:
lipo -info libfbxsdk.a
I get the message
Non-fat file: libfbxsdk.a is architecture: arm64
confirming that I'm using the library for the correct architecture.
Do I need to add any other confifuration option? (Like the other linker flag or something else)
I'm quite new to C++, and integrating a C++ SDK into iOS is not easy.
I'm using Mac Os Sonoma 14.6.1
Tested on Xcode 15.4 and 16.2
Target Device: iPhone 13 Pro (iOS 17.6.1)
iOS FBX SDK version: 2020.3.7
Link to the SDK if needed:
https://aps.autodesk.com/developer/overview/fbx-sdk
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
My company wants to be insure that if my Objective-C to Swift conversions fail in anyway, that the app can revert to using the older Objective-C code. By using a remotely controllable flag, the app can switch which code runs as, both are compiled into the app.
Essentially, I create a protocol that describes the original class, then both classes (with a "s" or "o" appended to them) conform to the protocol.
Protocol: Object
Objective-C class: oObject
Swift class: sObject
That said, I hit one issue that I just can't seem reason out. I create a Objective-C function that returns the appropriate class:
Class<Object> classObject(void) {
if (myFlag) {
return [sObject class];
} else {
return [oObject class];
}
}
Swift deals with this really well - I can create an initialized object using:
let object = classObject().init()
but I cannot find a way to do this in Objective-C:
Object *object = [[classSalesForceData() alloc] init];
fails with "No known class method for selector 'alloc'"
Is there a way to do this?
David
PS: my workaround is to return an allocated object:
Object *createObject(void) {
if (myFlag) {
return [sObject alloc];
} else {
return [oObject alloc];
}
}
We developing Native App with C++17 for iOS. We override global new and delete operators. This App deallocate all allocated memories correctly by Run on Xcode (Command + R), but exception occurs launch from xcrun or App icon on iPhone.
I debugged the exception. Overriding new operation was called correctly, but overriding delete operation was not called. The default delete was called. I'm not sure why is that.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Build xcode project.
Run "xcrun devicectl device install app --device "
Run "xcrun devicectl device process launch --console --device "
PLATFORM AND VERSION
iOS
Development environment: Xcode 16.4, macOS macOS Sequoia 15.5
Run-time configuration: iOS 18.5
main.cpp I attached is sample code to reproduce this problem.
main.cpp
Topic:
Programming Languages
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General
Crash Log
We have a issue with our watch app. When we do a release build with xcode 16 the watch app will not launch and crashes on watchOS 10 and below devices.
It does not do this on debug builds...and it does not do this on xcode 15 release/debug builds.
Anybody running into watch crashes on xcode 16?
Thanks
I have a class object created dynamically using Runtime, and I want to release some manually allocated memory resources when this object is deallocated. To achieve this, I added a custom implementation of the dealloc method using the following code:
SEL aSel = NSSelectorFromString(@"dealloc");
class_addMethod(kvoClass, aSel, (IMP)custom_dealloc, method_getTypeEncoding(class_getInstanceMethod(kvoClass, aSel)));
However, I encountered some issues. If I don't call the superclass's dealloc method in the cus_dealloc function, the superclass's dealloc implementation will not be executed. On the other hand, if I explicitly call the superclass's dealloc method, the program crashes.
Here is the implementation of the cus_dealloc function:
void custom_dealloc(id self, SEL _cmd) {
// Release other memory

Class superClass = class_getSuperclass(object_getClass(self));
void (*originIMP)(struct objc_super *, SEL, ...) = (void *)objc_msgSendSuper;
struct objc_super *objcSuper = &(struct objc_super){self, superClass};
originIMP(objcSuper, _cmd);
}
demo
I have a simple shell script as follows:
#!/bin/bash
OUTPUT="network.$(date +'%d-%m-%y').info.txt"
SUPPORT_ID="emailaddress"
echo "---------------------------------------------------" > $OUTPUT
echo "Run date and time: $(date)" >> $OUTPUT
echo "---------------------------------------------------" >> $OUTPUT
ifconfig >> $OUTPUT
echo "---------------------------------------------------" >> $OUTPUT
echo "Network info written to file: $OUTPUT."
echo "Please email this file to: $SUPPORT_ID."
It just dumps the network config into a file. At some point I will have the file emailed out, but right now I'm just trying to figure out why the output looks like the following?
bash ./test.sh
.etwork info written to file: network.26-01-25.info.txt
.lease email this file to: emailaddress
Why in the world does the initial character of the last couple of "echo" commands get clipped and turned into periods? The echos for the output of the commands piped into the output file are fine. Strange...
Any ideas?
Topic:
Programming Languages
SubTopic:
General
Hello everyone,
There is one thing about Objective-C's memory management that confuses me, which is a returned object's lifetime from methods with names doesn't start with "alloc", "new", "copy", or "mutableCopy".
Take this as an example, when using NSBitmapImageRep's representationUsingType:properties: method, it returns an NSData object (reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsbitmapimagerep/representation(using:properties:)?language=objc).
While testing this out, the NSData seemed to be an owned object (it doesn't get released until the end of the program).
From what I understand, this may be an auto-released object which is released at the end of an autorelease pool block.
Could someone explain this in more detail? What if I want to release that NSData object before the end of the autorelease pool block? How can I know which object is autoreleased, borrowed, or owned?
I have a Swift Package that contains an Objective-C target. The target contains Objective-C literals but unfortunately the compiler says "Initializer element is not a compile-time constant", what am I doing wrong?
Based on the error triggering in the upper half, I take it that objc_array_literals is on.
My target definition looks like:
.target(
name: "MyTarget",
path: "Sources/MySourcesObjC",
publicHeadersPath: "include",
cxxSettings: [
.unsafeFlags("-fobjc-constant-literals")
]
),
I believe Objective-C literals are enabled since a long time but I still tried passing in the -fobjc-constant-literals flag and no luck.
To be clear I'm not interested in a run-time initialization, I really want it to be compile time. Does anyone know what I can do?