Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Building resources udner xcode

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Martin wrote:
> It sounds good in principle - no trouble using gnu make, perl and shell 
> script. The trouble is that, so far at least, the xcode projects 
> (wxWidgets and XaraLX) do not need or use the auto-tools in any way. 
> They use the raw source code and their build configuration settings are 
> bound into the project files.
>
> So, while a build stage that simply issues a make command is very 
> attractive, it's less so if the makefile has to be created by autoconf. 
> Would the resources makefile need to be reconfigured for different 
> platforms?

Sure, but they would not need autotools, because it would be a static
makefile (or you could just use a static makefile, like the
makefile.static arrangement we had before).

It would be pretty easy to make a short script that just ran
the relevant perl programs, but how would you know when you
needed to run it without something that goes look at filetimes,
a la "make"? I suppose if you like I could write some perl that
did that too, IE a homebrewed version of "make" just for the
resources. This would then give us more flexibility if we wanted
to change build systems.

Alex