[CMake] CMake 2.8, Xcode generator and XIB files

[Daniel Dekkers]

Correction: not the Info.plist. That is treated differently because CMake generates its own for the project. 
You can set a "template" Info.plist though where ${VARIABLE} entries are subsituted with (known) CMake variables.

On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Daniel Dekkers wrote:

> Hi Jerry,
> 
> I've been battling with .xibs for weeks. What I am finally doing now is not trying to compile and add them to the bundle via CMake myself using custom commands.
> I just add them as sources to ADD_EXECUTABLE(... ${RESOURCES}) and set
> SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(... PROPERTIES RESOURCE ${RESOURCES}) to make Xcode "aware" of them. They then appear in the top level /Resources folder and Xcode will compile them and place them in the bundle. The same with icons, splashscreens, Info.plist, Settings.bundle, etc.
> 
> Two problems with that..
> - You need Xcode. Although i haven't tried building from the command line in any way.
> - If you have multiple projects, each with it's own resources, they tend to all clump together in the top level /Resources folder. Not what you want. I haven't found a way to seperate them into the individual projects yet. Don't even know if that is possible with Xcode.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel Dekkers
> 
> On Sep 30, 2011, at 3:22 PM, g4 at novadsp.com wrote:
> 
>> My CMake rules to convert a .XIB file to a .NIB file in the application bundle work for makefile builds.
>> 
>> However I cannot get the same result when using the Xcode generator. Does anyone have a working example for XCode 3.X or 4 they can share?
>> 
>> The cmakelists.txt script is
>> 
>> Message("We are generating for Xcode ${this_target}")
>> 
>> # Make sure the '.App' directory tree is correctly created before we build
>> # copy our plist and icon file into place
>> add_custom_command (TARGET ${this_target} PRE_BUILD
>>                    COMMAND mkdir -p ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app
>>                    COMMAND mkdir -p ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app/Contents
>>                    COMMAND mkdir -p ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app/Contents/MacOS
>>                    COMMAND mkdir -p ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app/Contents/Resources
>>                    COMMAND mkdir -p ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
>>                    COMMAND cp -n ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Info.plist ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app/Contents
>>                    COMMAND cp -n ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/WV.icns ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app/Contents/Resources
>>                    )
>> 
>> # command to convert any existing IB .xib to .nib in the .APP folder
>> add_custom_command (TARGET ${this_target} POST_BUILD
>>                     COMMAND ${IBTOOL} --errors --warnings --notices --output-format human-readable-text
>>                             --compile  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${CMAKE_CFG_INTDIR}/WebViewExample.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib 
>>                            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/MainMenu.xib
>>                    )
>> 
>> This appears to fail with at the first cp command ...
>> 
>> Thx++
>> 
>> Jerry
>> 
>> 
>> 
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