Mischievous Ramblings II

Alea Iacta Est, part 2

Hero Roller Lite has been rejected on the basis of demonstrating features in the full version (unusable preload buttons).

Hero Roller will require additional time to review.

I'll have a fixed version of Hero Roller Lite in the near future, but I've got Kenpo Stick & Knife camp over the weekend.  Maybe they'll give me information about Hero Roller by the time I have time to re-build and test Hero Roller Lite.

"not used because `DEBUG' is defined"

As I wrestle with completing the shippable versions of Hero Roller and Hero Roller Lite, I come upon a bizarre unpleasantness.  Moving rapidly between Release, Debug, and Distribution versions of my projects, suddenly XCode responds to a build command with a huge list of errors which basically say "there's something wrong with your PCH file".  Putting an extra warning flag (-Winvalid-pch) provides the not-very-much-more-useful error that includes the magic phrase "not used because `DEBUG' is defined".

A google search turns up one conversation on the subject from June 2003. It's discussing a workaround that involves being concerned with specific locations of include files and the order that directories are searched and just seems like a lot to deal with. And probably brittle, besides.

Then it hits me.

If the problem is because DEBUG is defined, I infer that the issue is somehow whether the PCH file and my working project agree on whether DEBUG is defined. And that can only happen if I ever define DEBUG. 

So I won’t.

Instead of using DEBUG as my preprocessor flag, I’ll use ER_DEBUG. That fixes the problem.

Alea Iacta Est

I have submitted my first app to the app store.  It's called Hero Roller, and it does basic combat rolling for Hero System games.

I'll update as this goes along.  There's no telling how long it may take or what changes may be necessary.