Creating an OS X Address Book Plugin

I'm taking my first steps toward learning to write desktop code for the Mac and, thinking it would be a baby step, I decided to write an Address Book plugin to "fix" something that's annoyed me for a long time. Embarrassingly, I can't even get the boilerplate plugin to work the way I think it's suppose开发者_运维百科d to work.

My understanding from the Programming Guide is that creating a new Address Book Action Plugin actually creates a simple, but functional, plugin. If I create a build and copy the bundle to ~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins/, I should be able to open Address Book and see a custom context menu item when right-clicking on a phone number. I don't see that.

I'm brand new to the entire Mac development ecosystem. I've never used XCode, never written any Objective-C, never worked within the Cocoa framework. It's entirely possible--maybe probable--that I'm missing the most obvious of answers because I simply don't know what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, there's quite the dearth of beginner tutorials on these things. The programming guide itself isn't particularly beginner-friendly.

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Sounds like a 32/64 bit problem.

Find the Target in Xcode's sidebar that represents your plugin bundle. Click on it, then click Info in the toolbar. On the Build tab of the info window, you should find Architectures: change that to "64 bit intel".