Porting projects from Windows
Porting projects from Windows
- Subject: Porting projects from Windows
- From: Thomas Hauk <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 13:19:38 -0700
I'm a Mac head since the 128k but I've been doing development on
Windows for several years now. Through about 4 different versions of
Visual Studio, I've come to appreciate its design philosophy of
solutions and projects. It makes managing large projects, with
packages from external and internal sources, quite a bit easier.
Porting this project over to OS X has been a huge pain in the butt.
The biggest issue is that Xcode does not share in this philosophy of
separating packages very well. In trying to match the .vcproj idea
from Windows, and creating a .xcodeproj for each package, I've ended
up with a huge mess of projects, and a big functionality problem: I
can't change the code for a library while in the top-level
(application) project and expect all the dependencies to trigger
automatic rebuilds and relink. Visual Studio handles this with perfect
ease.
One method to resolve this that I've found using Google is to have all
the code for all the packages lumped into a single Xcode project. At
present, we have more than one application in this project, all of
them using different sets of packages. Would this "monolithic"
approach require me to have one Xcode project per application
(resulting in a huge mess of having to manually track setting
changes)? Or can I set up a single Xcode project to compile three very
different applications using different sets of shared package sources?
Also, is there any hope in heck that Apple will adopt the vcproj/sln
design philosophy?
T
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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
human history -- with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
-- Mitch Ratcliffe
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