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Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] XCode - The main goal

On 26/06/06, Phil Martin <Phil@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Ben,

[ snip ]

So let's define it to be Personal and document it as such. In which
case, I'd be very happy to receive your patch/patches and check them in
so that other people can build the program for themselves.


O.K. I don't have this with me, but first thing tomorrow.


Re: Scaffolding and/or stepping stones: I favour providing scaffolding
for novice builders because experienced users can simply remove it or
ignore it.


My suggestions for scaffolding would be:

1. A Framework of the wxWidgets library configured for Xara LX
2. A Framework of the wxXtra library
3. A binary command-line wxrc
4. Perhaps a complete XaraLX.app missing only the binary. (IOW,
populated with the resources - or not even missing the binary!

It might be that reference to wxWidgets project would help, as I
suspect that others must have found obstacles similar to these. Whilst
reseaching these questions, I have downloaded and built rapidsvn and
poedit (neither of which have quite the same document structure as
XaraLX, unfortunately) so it cannot be beyond the wit of man.

The first two belong in ./libs/darwin , and the third in ./bin
(currently has mplayer in it). The fourth already exists.


Targetting Tiger only is OK at the moment - we can look at earlier
versions of OS X later on.


It used to work, it now doesn't - I must be linking against Tiger
symbols (I think in the Foundation classes) that I shouldn't be.
Actually, there is a case for leaving support for earlier versions of
Mac OS X as an exercise for the FOSS folk.

Ben


> -----Original Message-----
> On 14/06/06, Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [ snip ]
> >
> > ... the main goal of simply getting the application to
> build reliably.
>
> On Saturday, using an XCode-personal project (see previous), I built
> r1355 and it passed my current smoke test which is to open
> Garden.xar, select and move a large number of objects, and
> delete them.
>
> (My previous smoke test was to make a new document, this
> fails with a message about the need to create a template - I
> dare that this is by design).
>
> I can certainly provide you with a diff for the
> project.pbxproj file within the project, IIRC it is about
> 55kbyte in size, and so you might be very reluctant to apply
> it and therefore consider time spent studying it to be
> wasted. In brief, what needs doing is:
>
> 1. Fix up paths for wx include files
> 2. Remove a few paths that are specific to your system 3.
> Change settings to 'Current' (instead of SDK) 4. Add a libxml
> library 5. Create and build a wxXtra target 6. Add a few
> files to the XaraLX target 7. Add a few files to the project
>
> That is all the heavy lifting that I believe to be necessary,
> and it is not that heavy. It is possible that the creation of
> the app bundle needs a few steps adding to the 'Copy files'
> phase at the end, but this also will be straightforward once
> you get to it (icons, plist, other resources?, libraries?).
> The whole point about a XaraLx-personal is to weak link to
> libraries on the current system. not necessarily to create a
> 'deliverable'.
>
> I would suggest that we approach this either as using
> scaffolding to support people who are wanting to do the build
> - most importantly by providing pre-built binaries (such as
> the wxrc tool) where creating them de novo is fiddly; or as
> stepping stones - a series of steps that only get harder
> progressively, so that less adept people can use a 'learning
> curve' technique to get up to speed.
>
> (I will add that my latest build seems to be Tiger only,
> which I don't believe is necessary; and I am not quite sure
> why at this stage. Also, the unstripped binary seems to be
> too large to fit onto one CD Rom, which is a pity).
>
> As always, bugs to Bugzilla so that steps taken to fix them
> are recorded, discussions about development here and other
> things on the Talkgraphics forums.
>
> > On 13 Jun 2006, at 13:15, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > >> However, the present objective is to get something
> > >> simple, working;
> > >> and if turning off internationalisation helps, then I
> > >> will do this;
> > >> but I would recommend that once we have more experience we throw
> > >> away this work and replace it with something done correctly from
> > >> the ground up. Not doing internationalisation does not conflict
> > >> with the functional specification of getting something up and
> > >> running which will work on the developer's machine so I am not
> > >> claiming that this is cut and dried.
> > >
> > > All you should need to do is pass an extra flag or two to
> > > buildresources.pl
> > >
> > >>> How (after all) do you pass in for instance the location of
> > >>> buildresources.pl itself?
> > >> With a 'Run Script Build Phase' which is a six line
> > >> shell script,
> > >> the last line of which is:
> > >> Scripts/build-resources.pl --topdir=$SOURCE_ROOT --version="9999"
> > >> --xgettext="skip"
> > >> --wxrc="/Users/phil/Code/wxMac-2.6.3/osx-build/utils/wxrc/wxrc"
> > >> --checksum="/sw/bin/md5sum"
> > >
> > > You don't need --checksum (md5sum is not used) You don't need
> > > --xgettext="skip" (unless -i is passed it isn't used) You
> > > don't need
> > > --version="9999" (unless -n is passed for versioning) You don't
> > > (right now) need --wxrc until you have -i for international
> > >
> > > Can we not assume wxrc etc are on the path, or do (e.g.)
> > >   --wxrc=$WXRC
> > > then set that up the same way you set up $SOURCE_ROOT