Compiling CEGUI under MacOS X

[Exsortis]

zakalawe wrote:

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- pbxcp (used by the helper script) seems to have been vanished. Though, I can't quite figure out why this step isn't done with a 'Copy Files' phase.

You're almost right: they should use the 'Copy Headers' phase. However, Apple was apparently short-sighted (or I don't know how to configure it) by not including support for recursive copying of files in this phase. There is an 'elements' subdirectory that gets eliminated during the Copy Headers phase (which will break dependent builds), so I created a helper script to copy those headers to their correct location. As you've noticed, it relies on pbxcp, which I used because it intelligently ignores CVS directories and such. Perhaps a Copy Files phase, instead of the helper script, might be better.

I'd say "I'll look into it," but as renchap has discovered, I just don't have the time right now. I started a new job 2 months ago, and the schedule is insane. With other commitments, programming has to take a back seat at the moment. (I really don't even have the time to write this post! )

I'm tempted to surrender this portion of the project to another dev, perhaps temas (since that would round out the Ogre-involved parties ).

_mental_, if you want to give access to temas to update the Mac stuff (if he doesn't have it already, and is willing), please do so.

Thanks for your patience, guys.

-E

[zakalawe]

Well, the reason Copy Headers isn't recursive is that Apple don't want you doing that - officially framework header trees are supposed to be flat, though you can find exceptions everywhere you look! I presume part of the goal is to allow frameworks to use the pre-compiled header files, as the Carbon framework does, to speed up compiles. But I've never seen docs on how to do this in your own frameworks.

The approach I've used in the past is one 'Copy Files' phase for each Headers sub dir: set the destination to 'Product Directory' and the path to: <pre>$(PUBLIC_HEADERS_FOLDER_PATH)/my_subdir_name</pre> and everything works out right.

[_mental_]

@Exsortis: thanks for letting me know. I'll check with temas to see if he has time to update the OSX build. If anyone else out there wants to take a stab, feel free and submit a patch to the tracker.

[zakalawe]

I will submit the two trivial code patches required to the tracker tonight (the int -> GLint changes, and removal of Xerces includes from DefaultResourceProvider). I can also submit an updated project file ('build script'), but one thing worries me - does X-Code 1.5 read X-Code 2.0 projects?

I guess I'll post my project file here, and some kind panther user can test.

[renchap]

i can try your patch with my imac (XCode 1.5 - panther) if you want

[munkeball]

Found where pbxcp is.

It's under:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DevToolsCore.framework/Resources/pbxcp

So I modified the script. Seems to work now.