How exactly do you set Debug flags? (Solved! Implementation explained here with pictures). about armchair HOT 1 CLOSED

So i finally figured this out with the help of a fellow githubber. Having never used a custom complier flag before, this was confusing to find, set, and set correctly.

So here is how to add this debug flag to the Armchair cocoapod.
FYI: You use debug mode to test out Armchair. Enabling debug mode makes Armchair show prompts immediately, without it having to meeting your usual prompting pre-conditions. You need to tell Armchair you're running the app in debug mode by setting a custom complier flag. Just building the app in debug ('testing' mode) in Xcode isn't enough for Armchair to recognize this.

To add a "-DDebug" (case sensitive) flag to Custom Complier Flags section of build settings for the Armchair pods project.

• find and open up the "Pods" project in your project explorer. Select the Armchair Target. You then must find and click "build settings" to show the Armchair pod build settings.

Now, use the search box to search for "flags". You may need to select show 'All' options at the top, to find this entry. the "Swift Compiler - Custom Flags" section should be at the very bottom of the list. You may need to click on "Other Swift Flags" to show the 'debug' and 'release' options - notice the drop down arrow that makes these two options visible.

Once you see that, double-click on the debug row to bring up a little box where you enter the flags you're adding. Tadd a row, click the + arrow at the bottom of the box, and add text, and then click out of the edit field do add that row. then repeat with the + icon to add the other rows.
Add these 3 rows: "-D", then "COCOAPODS" and then "-DDebug", as shown below. Make sure you add this only to the Debug row so that Debug mode is only enabled when you build your app for testing, not on Release builds as well (Release would be when you compile an archive of your app for the app store)

from armchair.