docs/cocoa/install.txt

   1 wxCocoa is still a work in progress.
   2
   3 To compile it, you will need Apple's Developer Tools.  However, please
   4 note that any work to make it suitable for GNUstep (which will require
   5 a GCC release with Objective-C++) will be much appreciated.
   6
   7 For the time being, the standard configure/make method works.  You will
   8 want to build static because there are a number of unimplemented functions
   9 that a shared library will need (becuase of wxWidgets code internally using
  10 them) but that a static library will not (because most of the samples
  11 don't need it).
  12
  13 On my system I have the following:
  14
  15 Checked out CVS source is in:
  16 /Users/dfe/devel/wxHEADcommit/wxWidgets
  17 Debug build directory is:
  18 /Users/dfe/devel/wxHEADcommit/BUILD_COCOAd
  19
  20 From the debug build directory:
  21 $ ../wxWidgets/configure --with-cocoa --enable-debug --disable-shared
  22 $ make
  23 $ cd samples/minimal
  24 $ make
  25 $ ./minimal
  26
  27 You may also need to configure the library --without-expat.  It didn't
  28 build last time I checked, but then again, several improvements have
  29 been made since then.
  30
  31 For other samples, you will need to provide at the very least an empty
  32 resource fork so the OS will recognize it as a GUI application.
  33
  34 From the debug build directory:
  35 $ cd samples/drawing
  36 $ make
  37 $ true | /Developer/Tools/Rez -t APPL -o drawing
  38 $ ./drawing
  39
  40 Note that the empty resource fork doesn't actually allow the app to be
  41 started from the Finder (it thinks it's a classic app!) but does allow
  42 it to run with a menubar and proper event handling from the command line.
  43
  44 I suspect (but am uncertain) that if we provided an empty plist resource
  45 that the app would be recognized as a proper OS X application.  Obviously,
  46 bundles would be preferrable, and any work on Bakefile (see
  47 http://bakefile.sf.net/) would be much appreciated.  wxMac also needs
  48 bundle building restored since the switch to Bakefile.
  49