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Xcode builds document instead of executable

Hi there, I have made an application using c++ and XCode, when I compile and run within XCode it opens in it's own window and runs perfectly, however when I attempt to open the executable from finder, the product is not an executable, but a document and I can't open it.

normally compiling generates an executable so I am unsure why this has started happening now.

please advise.

Thanks

Posted on Apr 14, 2020 7:15 AM

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daniel_davies201452 Author

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Posted on Apr 14, 2020 8:01 AM

Ok I worked out my issue. My executable was named "myProgram_1.0"

using the period in the executable name was confusing the executable extension changing it to an underscore solved my issue.

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