We are adding CoreData support to our iPhone app. This is a far-reaching change (moving from SQLitePersistentObject). To avoid branching, we run one code line with the new code in blocks #ifdef.
When I include this code from one of my headers (#define CORE_DATA_BUILD), everything works fine. When I create a new target and define my preprocessor macro, I get errors in the system headers. In particular, CFBag.h, CFArray.h, CFBinaryHeap.h, CFDictionary.h and CFSet.h all will not compile.
Mistake:
expected ';', ',' or ')' before '>' token
I created my new target by copying an existing application target program and then adding CORE_DATA_BUILD to the C Pre-processor section of the GCC-4.2 definition - Preprocessing.
I am sure that the pre-processor setting is configured, and my macro name does not interfere with Apple characters. The error also occurs when I add my definition to "Preprocessor macros not used in precompiled headers." I cleaned the assembly and removed the precompiled headers, but I still get the error.
Error output and output from Xcode:
ProcessPCH /var/folders/Ay/AyBvIizJERGjIMkWxjcIfU+++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.Xcode.501/SharedPrecompiledHeaders/UIKit-fzghyhumbyslqcedmtegbkgafwpy/UIKit.h.gch /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers/UIKit.h normal i386 objective-c com.apple.compilers.gcc.4_2
cd /Users/rog/Development/Groove
setenv PATH "/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin:/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -x objective-c-header -arch i386 -fmessage-length=0 -pipe -std=c99 -Wno-trigraphs -fpascal-strings -fasm-blocks -O0 -Werror -Wreturn-type -Wunused-variable -DCOREDATA -D<Multiple -Dvalues> -D__IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED=30000 -isysroot /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk -fvisibility=hidden -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -gdwarf-2 -iquote /Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Groove.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/Tests.build/Tests-generated-files.hmap -I/Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Groove.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/Tests.build/Tests-own-target-headers.hmap -I/Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Groove.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/Tests.build/Tests-all-target-headers.hmap -iquote /Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Groove.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/Tests.build/Tests-project-headers.hmap -F/Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Debug-iphonesimulator -F/Users/rog/Development/Groove -I/Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Debug-iphonesimulator/include -I/Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Groove.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/Tests.build/DerivedSources/i386 -I/Users/rog/Development/Groove/build/Groove.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/Tests.build/DerivedSources -c /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers/UIKit.h -o /var/folders/Ay/AyBvIizJERGjIMkWxjcIfU+++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.Xcode.501/SharedPrecompiledHeaders/UIKit-fzghyhumbyslqcedmtegbkgafwpy/UIKit.h.gch
<command-line>: error: macro names must be identifiers
<command-line>: error: ISO C99 requires whitespace after the macro name
In file included from /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CoreFoundation.h:39,
from /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/Foundation.h:6,
from /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers/UIAccelerometer.h:8,
from /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers/UIKit.h:9:
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CFArray.h:173: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '>' token
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CFArray.h:359: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '>' token
In file included from /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Headers/CoreFoundation.h:40,
etc...
My Prefix.pch file is standard:
#ifdef __OBJC__
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#endif
Any idea what goes wrong?