[CMake] CMake 2.8.8 : Reproducible Crash in Mac OS X 10.8

[Michael Jackson]

Agreed on all points.
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Mike Jackson <www.bluequartz.net>

On Aug 10, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> On 8/10/2012 2:30 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> I am going to be *very* pedantic here so you may slap me upside the
> head. The compiler was never "just there" on OS X. It has *always*
> required the installation of the developer tools. With 10.8 it would
> seem that installing "Xcode" is not enough to get the command line tools
> any more. The developer now needs to know to also install the "Command
> Line Tools" in addition (or in leau of*) Xcode.
>> 
> 
> We never printed a special warning when Xcode was not installed in the past?  Why now?
> 
>> About the best CMake-Gui could do is detect you are on OS X 10.8 or
> greater and ask the developer if they have in fact installed the command
> line tools or used Xcode-select (or what ever it is) to select the
> proper version of Xcode. Beyond that we are getting to the point that
> Windows is at where one is expected to have a fully functioning Visual
> Studio Command Prompt for CMake to generate Visual Studio Projects. A
> pain yes, but a fact of life.
>> 
> cmake-gui to date has no platform specific code in it...  We could have the check for compiler on the mac complain.  I think we might do that with nmake on windows...
> 
>> 
>> * There is actually a separate download for the command line tools
> that it looks like it could be installed without Xcode though I have not
> actually tried this myself.
> 
> Sure there is, and the word on the web for all other people wanting this compiler is to do just that.  A quick google search shows this:
> 
> 
> http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/install_the_command_line_c_compilers_in_os_x_lion/
> 
> http://technopracticum.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/installing-a-command-line-c-compiler-for-mac-os-x-10-7-lion/
> 
> http://superuser.com/questions/400179/gcc-on-os-x-lion-with-xcode-4-3-1
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10002981/g-wont-work-on-lion
> 
> http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/48099/gcc-not-found-but-xcode-is-installed
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9329243/xcode-4-4-command-line-tools
> 
> http://www.quora.com/Mac-OS-X-10-7-Lion/What-is-the-path-for-gcc-in-Mac-OS-X-Lion
> 
> 
> Basically, where did gcc go?  You need to install the command line tools...  Seems to be the question and answer spinning around the web. This was a HUGE change by Apple to make the command line tools not install by default with Xcode.  That is my opinion and I stand by it.. :)
> 
> 
> -Bill
> 
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