[wx-dev] Creating a MacOS X Framework

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:52:57 +0100 Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:

AFB> > AFB> It would be a good thing if both the Xcode projects and the
AFB> > AFB> autoconf/make built the same libraries
AFB> >
AFB> >  This is absolutely required, indeed. Isn't it the case already?
AFB> 
AFB> Except for slightly different configuration and library naming,
AFB> as mentioned earlier. I don't think they make binary equivalents ?

 I don't see why configuration should differ between Xcode and command line
builds. And naming definitely shouldn't.

AFB> I was more thinking of it being "two different cultures", kinda like 
AFB> how the Windows compilation differs from the MinGW compilation (on
AFB> that other OS) ?

 We can't think of providing the same binary distribution for MSVC and
mingw32 users as the compilers are not binary compatible at all. But under
Mac OS there is only one compiler and so it's not unreasonable to hope that
we can have only one binary distribution.

AFB> What I meant was that it needs to be scripted and automated, not manual.
AFB> i.e. ideas are good, but actual scripts (like wxPython's) are better...

 Yes, definitely.

AFB> Here I meant that if we want a binary installation for wxMac today,
AFB> then it would be much easier to just bundle /usr/local up into a PKG...

 I don't think having binary Mac distribution is that urgent. It would be
definitely nice to have but it's IMHO more important to do it right than to
do it quick.

 Regards,
VZ