[MonoTouch] xcode 4.2 and external libraries

[Robert Jordan]

Hi,

Mono's LLVM backend is entirely independent from Apple's compiler.
You don't need to enable Mono's LLVM to be able to link native
libraries created with Apple's compiler, and vice versa.

Robert

On 25.10.2011 20:36, Shawn Baker wrote:
> After installing Xcode 4.2, I noticed that it only supports two C/C++
> compilers, "Apple LLVM compiler 3.0" and "LLVM GCC 4.2". As far as I can
> tell, plain old "GCC 4.2" is no longer available. Our product uses several
> C/C++/Obj-C libraries that are built with Xcode, all linked into a large UI
> written in C#. It seems to me that the only way this is going to work is if
> I configure my C# project with "Use LLVM optimizing compiler". But if I do
> that, I can't use the debugger. Furthermore, decades of programming
> experience have left me extremely hesitant to trust anything marked as
> experimental.
>
> So, am I missing something? Is there a way to do this and still have
> debugging? Is MT's LLVM support "really" experimental and/or is that going
> to change any time soon?
>
> I'm really not sure where to go from here, so I'm still working with Xcode
> 4.1 for now.
>
>
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