Hi Todd, On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:00 AM Todd Blanchard via Pharo-dev < [email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone have Xcode projects for building the VM on iOS or Mac? Can > they share them or give me some tips for setting one up? > First I'd like to know your use case. I presume it;'s for debugging, but it may be more for browsing. Can you say? (Personally I find raw lldb adequate for debugging). Second, my reasons for not using Xcode projects for building the Mac VMs are that - Xcode projects, being a serialization of an object graph, are difficult to edit, and they offer no parameterisation, so whereas there is one small set of makefiles (8 in all) for all of the 32-bit and 64-bit builds on Mac, there had to be a separate Xcode project for each build. When adding Spur this was simply unsupportable - clearly Xcode is not necessary for building, browsing, or debugging; people are able to accomplish all three tasks using other tools However, I do appreciate that Xcode is a more pleasant and higher-level GUI interface than the shell, make, lldb and one's favorite editor. What I would support is a tool that created an Xcode project from Makefiles; such tools used to exist. I'd love to see such a tool. What I will fight against until my dying breath is any attempt to replace the Makefile based build system with Xcode. I hope the reasons above justify why. _,,,^..^,,,_ best, Eliot
