Cross-dev with gnustep make and xCode

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

I have been successfully using gnustep make and ProjectBuilderWO.app on 
MacOSX 10.2.8 for a couple of years. I used ProjectBuilderWO.app to 
edit files and to build applications and gnustep make to build 
frameworks and bundles on MacOSX and Solaris and I used gnustep make to 
build applications on Solairs. This worked great.

I now have to migrate from MacOSX 10.2.8 to MacOSX 10.5 and need a new 
cross platform development solution. I first copied my framework 
project directories to the MacOSX 10.5 (Intel) machine and just entered 
"make install". I was surprised to see that the frameworks built 
without a problem, though with a lot of weird warnings. I not even 
tried to build the applications with gnustep make, since this did not 
even work on 10.2.8. So I created a Cocoa application project with 
xCode and tried to link against the frameworks built with gnustep make. 
This worked with debug as the target but failed with release as the 
target. There I got an eror message "framework are not compatible, 
other platform". In the next step I tried to build the frameworks with 
xCode as well, but the frameworks generated by xCode do not include a 
Heades dir and thus are useless. :-(

Is it possible to get along without xCode at all and build everything 
(even applications) with gnustep make on MacOSX 10.5? And if not how 
can I convince gnustep make and xCode to cooperate? Can I continue to 
build the frameworks with gnustep make and only the apps with xCode?

Hints are greatly appreciated! I am starting to hate 10.5 ... :-(

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

  Andreas