[CMake] Building Xcode project

[William A. Hoffman]

I am planning to do this sometime this year.  I have looked at it a bit,
and it would be nice if Apple would help, but I think  I will just have
to reverse engineer the file format like I did for the visual studio stuff.
The binary stuff seems to only be a unique key and the value is not really
important as long as it is unique.   It may take a few months for me to get
around to working on this, but it is coming sometime this year.

-Bill
 

At 11:31 AM 1/4/2005, Chris Scharver wrote:
>On Jan 4, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Ondřej Valík wrote:
>
>>I have read discussion (April-2004) about using CMake as tool for generating Xcode project (.pbxproj inside .xcode bundle, not makefiles) from set of source files. So I want to ask if anybody uses CMake to generate Xcode project successfully and could point me out to some documentation or help.
>
>Unfortunately, Apple has not released any documentation on the project file formats. There appears to be binary information (perhaps file system references?). It seems like Apple isn't willing to document the format in a way that would allow CMake to directly generate the project bundles. XCode does have AppleScript support, and it seems like that might be the recommended way to generate a project. CMake would have to generate an AppleScript, but it could then execute that AppleScript to generate the project. AppleScript has other potential pitfalls, like it may require the user is logged into the GUI in order to run.
>
>I don't have any AppleScript experience though. I did make a quick glance at XCode's AppleScript dictionary, and it looks pretty thorough. I didn't take the time to try to manually create a project.
>
>Another approach might be to create a stub XCode legacy project that uses CMake-generated makefiles.
>
>Chris
>
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