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Jorge2Jorge2 

Existing project with ARC?

I'm somewhat new to iOS development and have a start-up question: is it possible to use the Salesforce SDK with an existing project that has ARC enabled? If so, how?

Thank you

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Jorge2Jorge2

I was finally able to get things working by building according to the instructions, and adding SDK files to an existing project. I also needed to add git to my path; it's installed by XCode but wasn't found by the build script ("install.sh").

 

Thanks for the help and suggestions

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jhersh1jhersh1

Add the SDK files as normal to your project, then just set those files' compiler flags to not use ARC: -fobj-no-arc
Jorge2Jorge2

Thanks @jhersh1 - do I still need to build the SDK (run "./intsall.sh") and install the Salesforce project templates, or could I copy the ".a" file and headers from one of the sample apps?
Kevin HawkinsKevin Hawkins

If you're including the Salesforce SDK with an existing project, you don't need to use a template.  The SalesforceSDK binaries are in the dist/SalesforceSDK/ folder, so you can just unzip the debug or release archive, as desired, and include the package in your project.

 

Given that libSalesforceSDK.a is a static library, you don't need to do anything special to use it in your ARC project; it should "just work".  However, you'll likely need to include the other dependencies of libSalesforceSDK as well--SalesforceCommonUtils, SalesforceOAuth, and RestKit.  These are all available under the dist/ folder as well.
Jorge2Jorge2

Kevin - thank you very much for the complete & clear answer. Let me try that and I'll come back to mark the solution.
Jorge2Jorge2

Unfortunately, it didn't work for me yet... I included the ".a" files in my project, but get lots of errors like: "Undefined symbols for architecture i386..."

 

I don't understand these errors - a Google search points me to lots of posts on Stackoverflow.com, and I tried to follow the various solutions offered there, but without success.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks
Jorge2Jorge2

I was finally able to get things working by building according to the instructions, and adding SDK files to an existing project. I also needed to add git to my path; it's installed by XCode but wasn't found by the build script ("install.sh").

 

Thanks for the help and suggestions

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