Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Building resources udner xcode

[Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:

> 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).

Sorry, I don't understand the distinction between those options...

> 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.

Xcode "run script build phase"s can be triggered conditionally when 
specified input files are found to be newer than specified output files. 
So I think a script would do, no need to re-invent the make system wheel.

If a static makefile were used by the build system on all platforms but 
a short script were only used by Xcode then I suggest the static 
makefile would be the better solution because changes would propagate 
to/from the Mac more easily.

Phil