Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

[David Chisnall]

On 9 Oct 2009, at 21:29, Markus Hitter wrote:

> Am 09.10.2009 um 20:23 schrieb David Chisnall:
>
> > On 9 Oct 2009, at 19:19, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> >
> > > Well, yeah... I do know about pbxbuild since I helped develop it.
> > > The point is that the majority of mac devs expect things to be done
> > > completely from the mac.
> >
> > My point was that this is something we could automate pretty  
> > trivially.  I managed to get Darwine building (but not running)  
> > Windows versions of GNUstep apps, and it would be pretty simple to  
> > package up a virtual appliance that people could open with  
> > VirtualBox on their Mac and just point at an svn repository and get  
> > automated builds.  Same with Darwine; we could package up a .wine  
> > directory containing GNUstep with this.
>
> Does this mean GNUstep cross-development can be done from within  
> Xcode already or do you want to use Darwine to run ProjectCenter/ 
> Gorm for development? For the later, I fear this isn't exactly what  
> developers mean with "completely on the Mac".

Currently, pbxbuild doesn't run under Darwine, so I had to generate  
the GNUmakefile by hand, but I did set up one project with an  
'external build system' step in XCode that ssh'd to a VM and ran  
pbxbuild there. It's not how I'd want to work, but it does work for  
producing Linux / *BSD binaries.  We could quite easily produce a  
VirtualBox appliance that had a small Linux / GNUstep install and a  
build script that can be used from XCode to rsync the project into the  
VM and then run pbxbuild on it.

> An ability to run/debug GNUstep/Windows executables on the Mac would  
> be a nice addition, though.

Unfortunately, for some reason, GNUstep/Windows apps didn't work at  
all in WINE for me.

David

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