Am 04.05.2011 um 18:57 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > On 04/05/2011 18:57, Stephan Witt wrote: >> Am 04.05.2011 um 18:31 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: >> >>> On 04/05/2011 18:22, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >>>> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:37:47PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >>>>> On 04/05/2011 17:31, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >>>>>> I really don't understand the cygwin argument here. >>>>> I was answering your argument about autotools portability to Windows >>>>> in advance :-P >>>> Still, I don't get what you mean. I successfully use autotools for >>>> building a MinGW version of LyX without any fuss. >>> Are you playing with words? I know that; and you can even make autotools to >>> use the MSVC compiler FWIW... But you have to install a lot of things >>> before this can be possible. >>> But please try to understand that that's not what typical Windows or Mac >>> developers are used to do. >> Do you talk about development and/or debugging only or do think about >> package making too? > > That too yes. > >> I don't know how to create a Mac-Application-Bundle with CMake. >> The XCode-project made by CMake isn't able to create an application, AFAIK. >> So I'm using CMake to create the XCode-project and doing the automake build >> regularly >> to create the .app bundle. And the latter is what users on Mac need. >> >> So I'd say currently CMake is useful but without it I'm able to work. >> Without automake currently we have nothing to distribute. > > So we have to work on it... and I am confident that it is possible to achieve > that. I hope I can find the time to explore this soon.
That would be interesting, indeed. Another problem with CMake is the impossibility to point it to a "non-system" Qt-installation. > Wouldn't it be nice if you could generate the .app bundle right from within > XCode? Not really. I promised to provide the .app bundle as nightly build - by a cron job. I don't know if it is possible to make that with XCode. The biggest win would be the fact the .app is created by the same tool chain as used in the development phase. Stephan
