dependencies
dependencies
- Subject: dependencies
- From: Hugh Hoover <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 17:25:12 -0800
I've been using XCode since the Panther release - I've tamed at least
some it it's new idiosyncrasies :)
(or is that - retrained me?)
Anyway - I have a question on dependencies -
my current project has 4 frameworks and a small main app. I expect to
install the frameworks into the app bundle at some point, but haven't
done that yet.
I have several issues that I haven't figured out yet - here's the
first one...
First, dependencies - there's this nice "Direct Dependencies" box under
the "General" tab of the framework target inspector, but nothing in it
- when I hit the "+", I get a slide-down box with nothing in it, with
an "Add" button. I can't type or anything in the box, and hitting
"Add" or return just makes the sliding box go away.
Just HOW am I supposed to add (or see?) dependencies? The instructions
seem to indicate that frameworks will show up in the slide-down box -
but there's nothing.
Currently - I don't have the frameworks "installed" - just symlinks
from ~/Library/Frameworks to the build/<xxx>.framework directory - is
that an issue?
I"m probably not using the frameworks in the expected manner - I
currently add header search paths to the source directories rather than
including "<framework>/header.h".
would that have an effect? (I don't really WANT to be including the
"standard" way, as this project ports to win32 - although I suppose a
carefully crafted source tree would make that work).
And as a general comment - I"m really hoping y'all get XCode working
well - there's promise... I use VS.NET frequently - and despite
everyone's (justifiable?) bias against the big M$ - it's really a
pretty good dev environment. The things that make it most useful for
me are the auto completion and browsing functions - they use compiler
derived browse info - which has both good and bad points - good because
of precision, downside in requiring successful compilation before
browse info is available. I tend to write new code there because of
the CodeSense stuff and browsing because it helps me with the
trivialities of coding - exact function names, etc. >It< breaks down
with anything but the simplest templates (and I'm using some really
complex templates now - recursive, template templates, etc). Being
able to type <namespace>:: and get that list, then <class>:: and get
THAT list is really really helpful to me - having it work correctly for
complex templates would be great.
The best dev environment I've ever used was Smalltalk (ParcPlace) back
in '90. We had a smalltalk to C++ translator that allowed us to
develop tweaked Smalltalk (all tweaks were in specialized comments)
that would translate directly into the final C++ (no edits after
translation). In Smalltalk, we had excellent browsing capability,
retention of session state, and unbeatable debug/fix/continue with
complete object browsing/editing - then translate to C++, run the now
translated unit-test and fix the occasional C++ issue. Very fast. How
soon can you get there? (not necessarily with the Smalltalk part -
although I wouldn't object !^)
Thanks,
Hugh Hoover
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