I’ve started writing a dashboard Cocoa app, and I’ve found the process of setting up OCMock really unreasonably painful.
The Setup
I got the OCMock framework from ocmock.org.
In my case I want the OSX directory for my Cocoa app, so I drag and drop
OCMock.framework from the dmg onto the Frameworks group in the project
navigator. This triggers a dialog to configure it.
The important things to note are:
- Copy items into destination group’s folder (if needed) is checked
- Create groups for any added folders doesn’t change
- Add to targets has the test target selected, and not the application
I’m now able to use OCMock in my tests.
Running the Tests
I get an unexpected surprise trying to run the tests however, in the form
of a no suitable image found error. The non-obvious solution to this is to
add a new build phase to the test target which will copy the OCMock library
into the runtime bundle.
Next select the framework to add to the new phase.
The target should look like this:
Again, the important points are:
- Destination is Products Directory
- Subpath is empty
- Copy only when installing is not checked
Finally, I moved the new phase run directly after compile. Running the tests now works.
What I Have Learned
- I can use the XCode build system now! (It’s more horrible than I imagined.)
- The build system for XCode 5 is still broken
- There’s an interesting tool called cocoapods which looks interesting, but I couldn’t make it work