Re: Cross Compiling for OS X?

[Blake Nicholson]

On May 3, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Andreas Höschler wrote:
> I first created an XCode project (Cocoa framework or Cocoa  
> application for each of my projects in a temporary directory and  
> copied the generated files into the real project directories. After  
> opening the XCode project, adding the files (classes, resources,  
> frameworks) was simple. The tricky part was to open the "Get Info"  
> panel for the project and the target - this really has to be done in  
> both places - and do the following settings for a framework project:
>
> Deployment Location                                     checked
> Installation Build Products Location            /
> Installation Directory                                  /Library/Frameworks
> Strip Linked Product                                    not checked

Andreas,

Setting identical settings for a project and its targets should not be  
necessary.  I have not specifically set the installation settings you  
describe (I install from my GNUstep GNUmakefile), but for other  
settings it is not necessary.  What I do is put all of my settings  
that are common to all targets in the project's settings.  By default,  
targets inherit the settings from the project.  If you need to  
customize the settings for a target (for example for a search path),  
you can set the first entry to $(inherited) to inherit the settings  
from the project (if desired), and then add whatever additional  
entries the target requires beyond what is in the project.

Also, if you have some build settings that you'd like to apply across  
many projects, you may want to consider build configuration files.   
Check out the following document from Apple:

http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/xcodebuildsettings.html

I don't know if you've already read through the Xcode User Guide, but  
two parts of it that you may find useful are:

Build Settings
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/XcodeUserGuide/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/05_04_bs_build_settings/chapter_33_section_1.html
[http://tinyurl.com/3v4ccz]

Build for Release (describes installation)
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/XcodeUserGuide/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/05_07_bs_building_product/chapter_35_section_7.html
[http://tinyurl.com/53jklc]

In the case of your installation settings, I believe you'll want to  
set those on the Release build configuration of the target associated  
with the application or framework you wish to install.  Some of the  
settings will already be configured in the Release build configuration.

I hope this is helpful.


Blake