XCode iPhone Apps Won't Compile (or do much of anything really)

Ok so I've got the iPhone SDK installed and I'm just running through the iPhone Dev Center's little starter page, figured I'd start things off by running the MoveMe application. But no dice... I try to compile and XCode just sits there, usually with the progress stuck somewhere between 0% and 25%. No error messages, no status messages, nothin.

Well fine, so I try the Hello World sample project. Same story.

I try to compile a trusty old non-iPhone app. No problems here.

So I uninstall XCode and reinstall w/ the iPhone SDK. Same story, same situation.

I try moving files, making fresh projects, adding garbage code to the main function, but still absolutely nothing changes. I can compile just fine (and it will appropriately complain when I have garbage code in) but if I try to BUILD it just sits there.

An image of my frustration here... this is exactly what I see when I try to compile. And nothing MOVES.

Anyone have any insight into this? I'm still pretty green at XCode, so I'm not even sure where to start looking.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 26, 2008 3:06 PM

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Jul 31, 2008 9:24 AM in response to dkittels

I also have the same issues. I've tried running the sample projects from the iphone developer site with no luck (tried with an ipod touch, with the simulator and no luck in either case :/)

What I have noticed is that it initially hangs on copying one of the assets (a png file in hello world). If I stop it and then try to build after, it hangs on trying to compile the xib file.

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