[MonoTouch] Moving MT to different account on same machine (mtouch exited with code 98)

[Rolf Bjarne Kvinge]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:19 PM, jGoff <info at goffs.net> wrote:

> I'm a long time Windows user and quite new to Apple & Lion.  As a result I
> put MT in the wrong account and now want to correct that.
>
> MT appears on the desktop of the new account and I can start it, and design
> a simple program, but when I tell it to run it refuses saying: mtouch
> exited
> with code 98.  I think it's just a little confused about where it is and
> where Xcode is.
>

The easiest would probably be to install everything again. Most of the bits
are system-wide, so you won't use more disk-space.

Your MonoTouch license is per-machine, so this wouldn't be a problem.


>
> How to handle this trivial piece of system admin?  I just want to get MT to
> run under a new account on the same machine.  It seems silly to install
> another (enormous) copy of Xcode.
>
> -------------------
>
> Once I get the simulator to run, the second issue is how to handle testing
> on physical devices.  Apple has a diabolically complex procedure to control
> use of external iDevices.  Is changing account on the same machine, the
> same
> as moving between different machine? Do I have to export or the permissions
> from one account, and import it into the new account?
>

I think the current procedure is to open Xcode's Organizer, find your
device in the tree view on the left, and click on the "Use this device for
development" button.

I hope this helps,
Rolf
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