Tutorial: cocos2d Xcode Project: Adding a Lite Version Build Target
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We'll add a "Lite" version Target that you can use to build a free demo version with limited content.
Duplicate the existing Target
Select the target, right or control click it and select Duplicate.
Rename the copy
Rename it so you can identify it easily as the LITE version Target.
Get Info
You know the drill. Right or control click, Get Info.
Locate Preprocessor Macros
On the Build tab with All Configurations selected locate the Setting Preprocessor Macros. It will show <Multiple Values> indicating that the values are not identical for all Configurations. If you were to edit the values now, you would overwrite each Configuration's value with the new ones and you will lose the DEBUG/RELEASE macros. That's not what we want, so skip to the next step.
Select Debug Configuration
Select the Debug configuration and notice that the Preprocessor Macros shows the DEBUG macro. Continue to edit the Preprocessor Macros by double-clicking the value.
Add LITE_VERSION macro
Click the + button and add a macro that reads LITE_VERSION. You can then use code like #if LITE_VERSION ... #endif to include or exclude code for the lite version. Similarly you could also add a FULL_VERSION macro to the original target if you want to make things a little bit easier.
Rinse and repeat
Repeat the above step for each of the build configurations we defined: Debug, Release, Ad Hoc Distribution and App Store Distribution, each time adding the LITE_VERSION macro. I'm afraid there is no shortcut here, just repetitive work. Luckily you'll do it only once.
Rename "Info copy.plist"
Duplicating the Target will also create a "Info copy.plist" in the Resources folder. You should rename this file to "Info-Lite.plist" and update the LITE version target's Build Setting "Info.plist File" so it points to the renamed file as shown above.
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I get “cocos2d.h:No such file or directory” when trying to #import “cocos2d.h”
what am I missing?
ups, the path to the source code was wrong.
This tutorial is toooo long.
Is there a short version ? I spent two hours on this and as I expected nothing works.
For begininers its not going to work
Great info! Thanks! However, the script is building the .ipa file before it does the codesign step. Have things changed in Xcode? How do I get the script to run after the codesign step?
I tried twice to follow your tutorial step by step using cocos2d 0.99.5-rc1, Xcode 3.2.5 and iOS 4.2.1, but I keep having problems when building and running on device.
The weird thing is I have no problem at all running the template on simulator!
To be more clear:
I’m trying to build and run following the final step of “Getting our Project Template to build minimal cocos2d code” section.
Running on simulator works perfectly, running on device (iphone4) crashes after splash screen with this message on console:
“Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”.
warning: Unable to read symbols for /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/4.2.1 (8C148)/Symbols/Developer/usr/lib/libXcodeDebuggerSupport.dylib (file not found).
Previous frame inner to this frame (gdb could not unwind past this frame)”
By stepping with debugger I found the app crashes on line 98 of AppDelegate.m:
“// make the View Controller a child of the main window
[window addSubview: viewController.view];”
I see there are little differences from your (great) tutorial and Xcode/cocos2d new templates, mainly for the use of RootViewController, may this crash be related? (I already added RootViewController.* to my template)
Has anyone found a fix to this problem?
Please please please help me, this thing is driving me crazy =/
Thanks
It might be related. Have you tried the version on github? https://github.com/GamingHorror/cocos2d-project
That version is tested with 0.99.5
But I recently started getting those “could not unwind” errors … I was able to fix them by changing the compiler in all referenced projects back to GCC.
Bingo!
Thanks a lot, you point me to a fix.
I had already tried with your latest github version, without luck.
I followed your suggestion, changing the compiler to GCC 4.2 on all projects (both cocos2d-project and cocos2d-ios) and it worked!
I suppose the problem was in compiler setting for cocos2d-ios, it was set to LLVM compiler 1.6.
If I set compiler to different version for the two projects, I always get that crash, when using same gcc version, everything is ok.
I tried also with LLVM GCC4.2 on both projects and it works too.
Probably I never met this problem since using cocos2d built-in templates everything get compiled using gcc without further setting.
Thanks a lot for your tutorials… and for fast replying too
Hi Steffen
To upgrade a project created with your template from e.g. 0.99.5 rc1 to the final 0.99.5 I just need to copy over the cocos2d-IPhone folder?
I would assume yes but thought of asking since it does not clearly covered in the main points/links at the top of this tutorial
Correct, although you should keep a copy of the old folder just in case.
I receive a lot of EAGLView may not respond to …xxx warnings, and I believe these are the undeclared selectors you are mentioning in your comment. How can I fix it? Only with turning off the treat warning as error option or also by changing the code?
I didn’t understand where to implement the code from your comment on this tutorial.
BTW, the entire tutorial is really great!!
If you get these errors then it’s because the EAGLView has changed in the latest cocos2d version. It should work with the cocos2d-project that you can get from github: https://github.com/GamingHorror/cocos2d-project
Hi
1st: GREAT job on this PDF. Realllly appreciated.
I just did the first part up to Helloworld with the 99.5 version. (up to page 43 of pdf)
You might want to update a bit, the part where we get the AppDelegate from Helloworld sample : since in 99.5 Cocos changed the samples so that for exemple main.m does not exists main() is in the delegate.m file.
Continue the great work.