SBJson in non-ARC project

Question

I am trying to include SBJsonlibrary in my project that does not use ARC. Since I cannot include source files, I've followed the steps described: here. However I end up with the same problems described in this SO question.

When I add libsbjson-ios.a to my project, it is shown in red, which I assume means the library is missing.

Although the compiling of the project goes fine, when I try to add #import "SBJson.h" I get "SBJson.h: no such file or directory" error.

How do I solve this? My project is too large and I cannot change everyting to use ARC.

Answer 1

you simply need to drag all the files into your project rather than importing the library. i suggest to see https://github.com/stig/json-framework/ and follow the read me file to install in your project.

to use this in your projects

1. download the zip file from above link.
2. In the Finder, navigate into the src/main/objc folder.
3. Select all the files and drag-and-drop them into your Xcode project.
4. Tick the Copy items into destination group's folder option.
5. Use #import "SBJson.h" in your source files.

Answer 2

As an aside, a project can use ARC for just some files, so you could have compiled SBJson's classes with ARC and the rest of the project without.

A better way would be to just use SBJson from CocoaPods if you need to support iOS4. Or just switch to NSJSONSerialisation if you don't.