> On Sep 9, 2020, at 8:56 AM, Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_...@crudebyte.com> > wrote: > > I've recently been thinking about how feasible a stripped down Xcode project > for QEMU would be, i.e. you just get the QEMU sources, click on > qemu.xcodeproj, Cmd + B, done. No extra installation, no configure, nothing. > > I've done this before for gtk(mm), which you might know, depends on approx. > 24 > individual libraries (glib, jpeg, png, pixman, atk, gdk, cairo, pixman, > graphene, sigcpp, ... gtk, gtkmm) that you would usually all need to download > and > > ./configure && make & make install > > each individually on macOS. Or right, you could alternatively "just install" > them from Homebrew, MacPorts, Fink. But no matter which solution you choose, > it easily ends up in a mess (conflicts, misbehaviours) on macOS to install > libs and apps globally. And I think that's the problem why there are > currently > relatively little contribution for QEMU coming from devs on macOS. Because > you > don't want to install things globally on a macOS system, it's simply not > working well there as it does with Linux distros. > > And the other thing is: I've tested the waters with Apple and filed a QEMU > related macOS bug with them. The response was like expected; they basically > said 'if there's no Xcode project, then we don't investigate it'. > > The question is, and I don't have the big picture of QEMU yet to judge that, > how much is auto generated for QEMU i.e. with custom scripts that would > probably destroy this plan? There are these trace calls that are auto > generated, is there more like the TCG part for instance? > > What I could imagine: a hand crafted Xcode project as a starting point, and > if > that works out, switching to auto generating that Xcode project from the > Meson > inftrastructure to avoid multiplication of maintenance effort. > > Best regards, > Christian Schoenebeck >
I think the solution to this problem is to switch over the CMake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMake). It is a build system that lets you specify how you want to build software. There are many targets available including 'make' and an Xcode project file.
