Re: managing xcode projects vs going back to makefiles
Re: managing xcode projects vs going back to makefiles
- Subject: Re: managing xcode projects vs going back to makefiles
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:11:43 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Wed, 26 May 2010 09:23:17 -0400, Stéphane Beauchemin said:
>We have a bunch of static libraries that need to be compiled on OS X.
>Currently all the libraries are managed in Xcode projects. Almost all of
>our code is cross-platform (running on windows and gaming console); so
>our IDE of choice is normally Visual Studio but except for mac OS X. My
>colleagues are having hard time with the XCode projects : they say that
>XCode project don't play nice with SVN... which is true.
I have not found this to be true. Our Xcode projects almost always auto-
merge correctly, and conflicts are generally easy to fix.
>Sometime you
>make small modifications in Xcode project and you and up with huge
>differences when doing a diff with old version of the project.
Really? Not me.
>I know
>that Xcode project are in xml but it doesn't seem possible to edit files
>by hand since Xcode add an ID next to each item.
True.
>Another problem with Xcode project is that they can't be edited on a
>windows computer. The dev that adds an object to a library need to walk
>to a mac, open the Xcode project make the changes and commit (we haven't
>found any good remote desktop application for remotely access a Mac from
>a PC).
This to should be doable. You can enable screen sharing in System
Preferences > Sharing and then connect from a Windows computer.
>For those reasons, we are thinking of switching to using makefiles.
>Makefiles can be edited with any text editor and it is easy to see
>changes you have made to it. Going back to makefiles seems a bit dumb
>when you have a tool like Xcode, but it seems the only solution.
I suggest looking at CMake:
<http://www.cmake.org/>
It can generate both Xcode and Visual Studio project files.
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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