Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] XCode project

["Ben Fowler" <ben.the.mole@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/05/06, Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've checked in an Xcode project that nearly builds the current LX
> source code. It has numerous issues:
> * It fails to link in libxml2 at the moment.
> * It has absolute paths in it that need to be altered when used on
> other machines.

I think in three places:
	o The includes directory for wx/wx.h and wx/setup.h
	o The Scripts/build-resources.pl
	o The libraries for wxWidgets

> * It refers to png and jpeg header files directly in wxMac source
> code (as a temporary means of re-using png and jpeg libs in wxMac)
> * build-resources.pl does not find the svn command and a bodged
> version number is supplied.
> * I'm not sure whether it builds Universal Binaries at the moment.

Also, your project says build only i386

> * Only the Development target has been worked on recently.
> Brief instructions to use the XaraLX.xcodeproj project:
> * Open wxWidgets.xcodeproj

Do you supply this project?

> * Open XaraLX.xcodeproj
>         * Adjust the path to the wxWidgets.xcodeproj file
>         * Adjust other paths as required in both project build settings and
> target build settings

I have not yet linked the executable (ppc), but I think that when
XCode gets to that stage, then it will work.

I do think that you have overcome many, if not all, of the problems
that would be effectively insuperable to an outsider, and I hope to be
able to produce good things very shortly!

Ben
On 29/05/06, Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've checked in an Xcode project that nearly builds the current LX
> source code. It has numerous issues:
> * It fails to link in libxml2 at the moment.
> * It has absolute paths in it that need to be altered when used on
> other machines.
> * It refers to png and jpeg header files directly in wxMac source
> code (as a temporary means of re-using png and jpeg libs in wxMac)
> * build-resources.pl does not find the svn command and a bodged
> version number is supplied.
> * I'm not sure whether it builds Universal Binaries at the moment.
> * Only the Development target has been worked on recently.
>
> Brief instructions to use the XaraLX.xcodeproj project:
> * Open wxWidgets.xcodeproj
>         * Duplicate the Development target and rename it DevUnicode
>         * Add _UNICODE and wxUSE_UNICODE=1 to the preprocessor macros of the
> DevUnicode target
>         * Build the new target as a static library: libwx_macud_static.a
>
> * Open XaraLX.xcodeproj
>         * Adjust the path to the wxWidgets.xcodeproj file
>         * Adjust other paths as required in both project build settings and
> target build settings
>
> Note that the wxWidgets.xcodeproj does not build the wxrc tool which
> is required by the build-resources.pl script of XaraLX. You will have
> to build it one way or the other: A new xcode project to do it would
> be ideal (or a new target within wxWidgets.xcodeproj) but failing
> that you will have to configure and build the entire wxWidgets
> project form the command line.
>
> If/when you do get a built exe out of it, you will find that the
> application is deeply broken. There are clearly some byte-order issues.
>
> Phil