Xcode 8 Objective-C category warning
I'm using Xcode 8 and Swift 3.0. What does this error message mean?
ld: warning: Some object files have incompatible Objective-C category definitions. Some category metadata may be lost. All files containing Objective-C categories should be built using the same compiler.
I also had this issue in a UIColor
extension, my app is entirely made with swift except for some frameworks that use Objective-c so I have no problem in declaring the var
as @nonobjc
:
extension UIColor {
@nonobjc static var lol: UIColor {
return UIColor.red
}
}
From the apple docs:
The nonobjc attribute tells the compiler to make the declaration unavailable in Objective-C code...
Since this code is unavailable to Objective-C the warning disappears.
In my case, the reason was having computed type property in an extension:
extension NSParagraphStyle {
class var defaultStyle: NSParagraphStyle {
return ...
}
}
Not sure what the exact reason behind this is, but to get rid of the warning I had to convert the computed type property (class var
) to a type method (class func
):
extension NSParagraphStyle {
class func defaultStyle() -> NSParagraphStyle {
return ...
}
}