Getting gdc working with xcode 3.1

[Jacob Carlborg]

Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2008-09-20 06:38:54 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doobnet at gmail.com> said:
> 
>>> 13:57 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doobnet at gmail.com> said:
>>>
>>>> And that has support for DSSS and Tango
>>>
>>> Which kind of support are you hoping for?
>>
>> That you can choose to build with "dsss build" or "dsss build target" 
>> instead of gdc.
>>
>> I downloaded your D plugin for Xcode 3.0 and tried that with 3.1. It 
>> kind of worked, the plugin itself worked but not building, I think 
>> that was because I use the gdc bundle from the tango website and it's 
>> build with the FSF gcc instead of Apple's gcc.
> 
> I had to fix the build process for Xcode 3.1, and this fix isn't on the 
> website yet. I'm going to put it there pretty soon. It's already in 
> source form in the git repository however.
> 
>> I modified the plugin so it (almost) worked with the gdc I have but it 
>> didn't work to compile a tango app without dsss. I also modified the 
>> plugin to use dsss instead but Xcode added to many unknown flags to 
>> the list of build flags that I couldn't find and remove them.
> 
> That's where you lose me. Xcode has its own build system which you 
> should bypass if you want to make dsss in charge of the build. I think 
> what you want is a new target were, just like when you have a makefile, 
> the build process is only launched by Xcode but taken care by an 
> external tool. Am I right?
> 
> If that's what you need, then I suggest you create a new target of type 
> "External Target" which you can find in the "Other" category, where the 
> description says: "Target that invokes an external build system (e.g., 
> make)." Then you change the path to "/usr/bin/make" for the path to dsss.
> 
> If that's not what you need, then there's something I don't understand 
> about what you are trying to do.
> 

Yeah I got it to work when I used dsss as an External Target. But what I 
want is to have dsss integrated the same way as gdc is. For example, 
changing build options, adding build flags, when I use an external tool 
the binary isn't placed in the Release/Debug folder and so on.

In the project settings->build there should be build options for dsss, 
rebuild and gdc/gdmd.