bakefile question regarding mac app bundles
Ulrich Telle <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:10:58 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.bakefile.devel |
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I've developed components for wxWidgets hosted at wxCode (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxcode/). As the build system I use bakefile since wxWidgets uses it, too. Currently I try to add support for wxMac to my component wxPdfDocument - without having a Mac environment for testing, which complicates matters as I always have to ask someone to test. The code of the component itself has been verified to work already, but I face problems to formulate my bakefile in such a way that for my sample applications working Mac app bundles are created. For the samples coming with wxWidgets there exists a bakefile named mac_bundles.bkl. I copies this file and some other files from the wxWidgets source tree to a folder of my component and adjusted mac_bundles.bkl to reflect the path changes. I added the Mac specific code found in another wxWidgets bakefile (common_samples_intree.bkl) and added the tag <wx-mac-app-bundle/> to the templates for all executables defined in my bakefile. Bundles are created, but three problems remain: 1) if my component is built as a shared object, the bundle doesn't find it. Is there a way via instructions in the bakefile to add a search path for shared objects to the bundle pointing to the lib folder of my component? 2) my sample executables need to access files located in the folder where the source files of the respective executable reside. Currently I use relative paths to access those files but I learned it would be best to copy all needed files to the Resources folder of the bundle. In mac_bundles.bkl there is a variable BUNDLE_RESOURCES serving this purpose, but if I assign a file list to this variable these files are copied to *all* executables' Resources folder. Is there a way in bakefile to parameterize a tag defined by a <define-tag> instruction like <wx-mac-app-bundle/> so that the parameter can be used to copy different files for each executable? 3) the executables need to access the folder lib/fonts of my component to make use of prepared font definitions. The component supports the use of an environment variable WXPDF_FONTPATH, but the user would have to specify this before running the executables. Is there a way to let the bundles know via bakefile where to search for these files without forcing the user to define WXPDF_FONTPATH? Any help to sort out these problems would be very much appreciated. Regards, Ulrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl