Re: New to GNUstep

[Markus Hitter]

Am 24.12.2004 um 11:33 schrieb Dirk Lattermann:

> has someone considered porting the MacOSX-version of Abiword to 
> GNUstep? When I looked at a release-candidate, I couldn't make much 
> sense of how it is built.

Apple's Xcode doesn't use explicit build instructions, like a Makefile, 
it does on the fly build analysis. Each source file is processed 
through it's appropriate compiler (if one exists) and all results are 
packaged into a application/framework/whatever.

To allow more than one build result, Xcode uses "Targets". Each file 
added to a project can, and usually is, member of one or more targets. 
Xcode doesn't really mind where a actual file exists as long as it's 
somewhere in the build directory.


>  I guess one needs Apple development tools to get started, ...

It's possible to disassemble a project.pbxproj file by external 
software. It's XML but makes extensive use of encoded references (to 
avoid human redability? ;-) ). You can safely ignore the .pbxuser 
file(s).

As a last resort, you could set up PearPC ... Xcode comes for free with 
each OS X distribution ...


HTH,
Markus

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