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Any idea why I get these messages:

NSAutoreleasePool is unavailable: not available in automatic reference counting mode

ARC forbids explicit message send of 'release'

in this code:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    int retVal = UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, nil);
    [pool release];
    return retVal;
}
Brad Larson
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This is because you are compiling with Automatic Reference Counting on. You need to use a different construct with ARC:

@autoreleasepool {
    // Your code
}

Another option is to turn off ARC for a specific file.

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Sergey Kalinichenko
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Yeah, you have Automatic Reference Counting enabled, which doesn't allow you to explicitly use 'release'. You need to either disable ARC or change your main method to look like this:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    @autoreleasepool {
        return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([AppDelegate class]));
    }
}
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Under targets->Build settings->Apple LLVM Complailer 3.0

Objective-C Garbage Collection (change to ) Supported [ -fobjc-gc]

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