[wx-dev] Creating a MacOS X Framework

[Anders F Björklund]

Etienne Samson wrote:

>> Let's say it needs to be recompiled _for_ OS X, not necessarily on.
>> Theoretically, you can cross-compile for OS X e.g. on Linux or 
>> Windows,
>> using gcc (I don't know of anybody doing this in practice, though).
> Right, but never tried too... It's right that the big problem with 
> Xcode (and xcodebuild) is that it only exists on OSX...

Then again Carbon and Cocoa frameworks only exist on Mac OS X anyway ?
That's the main problem with the proprietary software, you know... :-)

And it's a main reason why we are porting Code::Blocks IDE to Mac OS X.
Sure, Xcode is a lot nicer. But it's not cross-platform, and not Free.

> But my point was that for people using Xcode as their IDE, using wx is 
> hard, because it requires modification to the project settings 
> (defining__WXMAC__,__WXDEBUG__, which could be done in the 
> include/mac/setup.h file), whereas adding a well-built framework would 
> be all that's needed...

Even with a framework, they would still need to configure their 
projects.
The wx platform macros are not defined in setup.h on any other platform 
?

Usually this is done by providing Xcode template projects, to start 
from.
(or you can use wx-config and copy-and-paste, which also sort of 
works...)

--anders