Do I have to build the app to test ads?

seppsepp

Hi.

Simple (and maybe stupid ) question: Do I have to build my app to test ads especially it's a plugin? Gideros player crashes with "module 'ads' not found" =| .


Thanks in advance for your help.

Sebastian

ar2rsawseen

@seppsepp yep ads are platform specific, so specific ads work only on specific platforms, so you need to build your own Gideros player with preinstalled plugin:

http://docs.giderosmobile.com/deployment.html Device player with plugins

seppsepp

Ok, I tried it, copied the Ads plugin to a subdir called "Plugins/Ads/", I followed this guide http://giderosmobile.com/labs/ads-interface and now an error occurs:

ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L"/Applications/Gideros Studio/GiderosiOSPlayer/GiderosiOSPlayer"' ld: warning: directory not found for option '-L"/Applications/Gideros Studio/GiderosiOSPlayer/GiderosiOSPlayer/Plugins"' ld: library not found for -llua clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Without the Ads plugin the build process works fine - ok, after I did this http://members.giderosmobile.com/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=94

Any ideas why the error might occur?

ar2rsawseen

Could be this one:
http://blog.giderosmobile.com/post/68378513314/problems-with-xcode-paths-fix

seppsepp

Path are like this:

$(inherited) "$(SRCROOT)/GiderosiOSPlayer" $(PROJECT_DIR)/GiderosiOSPlayer/Plugins/Ads/frameworks/Admob $(PROJECT_DIR)/GiderosiOSPlayer/Plugins/Ads/frameworks/Chartboost $(PROJECT_DIR)/GiderosiOSPlayer/Plugins/Ads/frameworks/Inmobi $(PROJECT_DIR)/GiderosiOSPlayer/Plugins/Ads/frameworks/SamsungAdHub $(PROJECT_DIR)/GiderosiOSPlayer/Plugins/Ads/frameworks/TapForTap

It's fine, isn't it?

ar2rsawseen

Hmm, yes the paths look correct.

Basically the error says that lua lib is not found

Check if there is liblua in your xcode project and if that is actually appearing in the a xcode itself, as it may have been removed accidentally

seppsepp

The lib exists. And without the Ads plugin its no problem to build the player. Only when I add the plugin the error occurs. I'm a bit baffled =| .

ar2rsawseen

@seppsepp did you add all the linker flags described here for your specific ad provider:
http://docs.giderosmobile.com/interface/ads (Installation IOS)

seppsepp

I just kicked the whole project, set it up from scratch, checked all pitfalls ^^ and still get the error ... not my day

seppsepp

What does adding Ads plugin change so bad, that I can't build the player anymore? Could someone please try it by himself? Would be great to read wether it still works for others =| .

Btw: I use XCode 5.1.1, Gideros Player 2014.1 and the current Ads plugin.

wbowling

I had similar problems, not sure why it was happening but removing the liblua reference in Xcode then re-adding it and linking made the problem go away

-will