[Qgis-developer] Qgis Xcode project test

[William Kyngesburye]

I forgot to note that the project also takes care of bundling the Qt  
frameworks and support libraries, and all the install_name_tool stuff.

On Feb 13, 2009, at 7:59 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> My Xcode project is ready for some testing.  There is a readme in  
> the project for configuration and building, and another readme for  
> developers with some random notes on maintainance and the structure  
> of the project.
>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/macosxport/qgis-xcode-2.0.zip
>
>
> Comments and suggestions welcome.  Especially on the configuration -  
> I tried to make it as painless as possible, but it's still not  
> automatic like running a configure command to search out  
> dependencies.  There are layers of configuration for dependencies,  
> and I think most people will only need the first 1 or 2 layers.   
> (See the Qgis install document for details on installing dependencies)
>
>
> Other notes:
>
> - a single-architecture (ie native) build should run faster than a  
> cmake build.  This is because Xcode compiles sources in parallel,  
> fully utilizing all processors and cores.  A universal build will be  
> faster than in cmake if you have more than 2 processors/cores, for  
> the same reason.
>
> - I figured out how to get the bundled Qt frameworks to not get  
> confused with an installed Qt: bundled frameworks (in general) must  
> be installed in an application's Frameworks folder, otherwise the  
> OSX linker loads installed frameworks over bundled copies.
>
> This also applies to the help viewer app.  To get around this, I  
> create a symlink in the qgis_help.app bundle pointing to the  
> Qgis.app Frameworks folder.  qgis_help.app also needs the empty  
> qt.conf file to fix the problem of loading the installed Qt plugins.
>
> - In addition to using a Frameworks folder, I moved a few other  
> things around: share/qgis stuff is in Resources, qgis plugins are in  
> the package PlugIns folder, alongside the Qt imageformats, includes  
> are in Headers.  I left the qgis libraries in MacOS/lib because the  
> dynamic loading of libqgispython is hardwired to this folder, might  
> as well keep all libraries there.
>
> - there's a debug configuration which can be used in the Xcode  
> debugger.
>

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