Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436
Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436
- Subject: Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436
- From: Ladd Van Tol <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:02:57 -0700
PBTOMAKE is horribly broken, and is a bad example of how to go about
things. Fortunately, it's much easier than you'd think to parse the
Xcode project file format. The "project.pbxproj" file is a kind of
plist, and once you understand the keying scheme it uses, you can
repurpose the data without too much trouble. Xcode 2.1 projects are
now even easier to understand, thanks to the comments that are
automatically inserted.
I've written a converter that can turn most Xcode 2.0/2.1 projects
into a roughly equivalent Makefile. This saved us a lot of time on a
Linux project we were doing. Due to licensing constraints, I'm not
sure that I can release this, but I would be happy to provide tips on
how to write your own version -- it took me about two days to get
working makefile output, and another day to add dependency analysis.
If you were to pay attention to some of the more complex features
like target dependencies, build configurations, or custom build
phases, this could become considerably more involved, but is still
doable.
- Ladd
On Aug 18, 2005, at 5:09 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
On 18/08/05, Jack Nutting <email@hidden> wrote:
On 8/18/05, Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden> wrote:
On 18/08/05, Jack Nutting <email@hidden> wrote:
Apparently, the requirements include that you convert your xcode
project to a Makefile project (there is a script)
Last I looked, PBTOMAKE was fundamentally flawed and didn't work in
anything except the most trivial of cases.
That's too bad (and not too surprising).
To be honest, it's kind of lame that Xcode's build system is
private and opaque.
-- Finlay
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| | >Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436 (From: Stefan Werner <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436 (From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436 (From: Jack Nutting <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436 (From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436 (From: Jack Nutting <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Xcode-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 436 (From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>) |