Build error 71 on X-Code

Question

Hi Guys, I've been working on a GUI program for a while now, and I just can't get it to compile correctly, I am constantly receiving the following error -

Command /Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/CoreBuildTasks.xcplugin/Contents/Resources/copystrings failed with exit code 71

I've done some searching around to try to find a solution, and found a question on StackOverflow with the same problem over at - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/384962/copyplist-failed-with-exit-code-71 - however I've tried following the steps provided as the best answer, to no avail, and I've had no luck trying anything else.

I do think, however, that this is a problem with my Ruby install, because I did some installing only a short time back.

I've tired re-installing X-Code, deleting the Developer folder and getting X-Code to rebuild, and a number of terminal tricks to try to fix the problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated because at the moment I'm unable to compile.

Thanks,

-Tom

Answer 1

Everytime I had copystrings failing it was due to a syntax error. Make sure every string starts with quotation marks and ends with quotation marks, make sure every string assignment has a semicolon at the end.

"foo" = "bar";

Also watch out for quotation mark escaping:

"foo" = "bar with \"escaped\" quotation marks";

For me, it was missing semicolons most of the time.