[sword-devel] OS X/iPhoneOS based development

[Nic Carter]

Hehe - now you see why Manfred and I quite enjoy Xcode... ;)

I am personally not interested in a nice framework like you are talking about, as PocketSword wants to be as small as possible given it is installed on a mobile device.  So I don't need the cross-platform & -arch stuff that you want to do. But I love the sound of it. :)
But, apple have tried to make Xcode work nicely with make/cmake tools & the cmake guys have then taken advantage of that and made cmake do what you have seen. :)

Sorry I'm coming in at the end of this discussion - timezones can be interesting! But I'll try to help answer any other questions you have about Xcode - you could also take a look at the PocketSword setup on bitbucket? But now that you can see a nice and big and complicated Xcode project, hopefully that helps you understand how it all works.  :)


Thanks, ybic
    nic... :)

ps: Manfred: I owe you several emails - sorry, will try to reply when I get home tonight! :)

On 15/06/2010, at 8:52, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> WOW
> 
> I'm not quite sure but it's either CMake is amazing or Xcode is
> amazing or both of them totally rock. And probably Gregory for doing
> awesome job in doing this port.
> 
> it looks like it is doing out of the tree builds so i can have
> Makefile cmake generator in one dir and xcode generator in another dir
> and use them by mix and matching.
> 
> From faq of cmake there are loads of simple parameters you can set to
> get it xcode projects for any arches/sdk's you want/need.
> 
> Furthermore the generated xcode project is in subdir but it doesn't
> copy over source files instead they are referenced to the source dir
> from where cmake was run. So anything I edit in xcode is editing the
> svn checkout.
> 
> The source tree in xcode project looks about the same as the checkout.
> But the targets are structured wonderfully. You get the dynlib target,
> when you click on it it shows all the source files which are needed to
> build that target only. And every single little tool has it's own
> target and it depends on libsword target and lists only it's own
> sourcecode. Naturally there is the almightly "build everything" target
> =)
> 
> The best bit is probably that the xcode project is linked back to
> cmake. Each target has pre & post rule in xcode to talk back to cmake
> and reconfigure on the fly.
> 
> And finally the actually compile uses Xcode built-in rules so I get
> all xcode features, as if I defined the xcode project from scratch /
> by hand. So i get xcode precompiled headers, pre-binding, caching and
> parallel builds and can run debugger, DTrace and all that jazz against
> it.
> 
> If CMake does the same for Visual Studio then hands-down cmake rocks
> and sword really needs it if we want to seriously push into mobile
> device.
> 
> I think it will be easy enough to create my dream sword.framework
> using this, since by the looks of it I'll just define a separate
> project, import the library from this cmake-xcode project and play
> around with it to turn in into a framework. Although I'm gonna start
> with cmake first cause probably we can tweak it into turning
> sword.dynlib into framework =)
> 
> /me is probably gonna switch xiphos to cmake as well =)))))) for the
> sake of buidling on mac at least =)
> 
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