[CMake] Xcode generator?

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Apr 16 19:43:57 EDT 2009


Robert Dailey wrote:
> I actually have another question about the Xcode generator. I didn't 
> want to create another thread for this.
> 
> A co worker and myself noticed that the generated Xcode projects for MAC 
> seem to be nothing more than utility projects that call into makefile 
> scripts. Is this true? Why is CMake not generating true XCode projects? 
> Perhaps we are misunderstanding?
> 

For custom commands this is what is done.  We also use helper makefiles 
because Xcode can not natively specify static libraries in a specified 
order with repeats, and some other issues.  So, it is as native as 
possible, bit does use some helper makefiles.

-Bill


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