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: Gabriel Beauchemin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:24:43 -0400
Take a look at cmake http://www.cmake.org/
Basically, you can generate projects(or makefiles) from a simple
text-based project description.
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Stéphane Beauchemin
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
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> 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. 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. 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.
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> 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).
>
> 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 am sure I am not the
> only one out there hitting problems like this. Any thought, suggestions?
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> Thanks,
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> Stephane
>
> P.S. : We are also looking at using things like premake.
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