I'm about to start a new project, and I would like to get some advice
from people who are doing something similar.
I've inherited a project written in C++ that I'm going to continue
developing. It was primarily designed for Linux, but I've tweaked it to
work on OS X. It depends on an existing library (http://root.cern.ch/,
source available) that I can build on OS X as well. Right now, my code
has a shell script that performs the installation, depending on
predefined environment variables. Subdirectories have Makefiles, but
there is no makefile in the source root directory.
The following is what I would like to do with the project, and I'd
appreciate any comments as to whether I can do everything listed, as
well as any tips or pointers on how to get started. (I have been
programming in Cocoa for a few years and WO even more, so I'm familiar
with Xcode itself.)
- Do all my coding/debugging in Xcode.
- Convert the project installation to use autoconf.
- Ensure that the project can be built in Xcode, Linux, or on the
command line in OS X (which minimal hassle).
- Can I mix Obj-C & C++ code and still maintain Linux compatibility? I
know that gcc does Obj-C, but Linux doesn't have, for example, an
NSAutoreleasePool...
As far as including the ROOT shared libraries, I know that I can build
them and include them into the Xcode project, but the installation on
Linux will be in a standard location (that I can't change). How can
this be designated on each platform (right now the user is required to
specify this via an environment variable)?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Cheers,
Demitri Muna
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