[Samad]

About six months ago, I posted a question on this forum on how to write a Makefile that builds a proper Cocoa application. Needless to say, I've been (mostly) successful in writing Makefiles that build Cocoa applications, so I don't need to rely on Xcode for compiling & building.

Does anyone out there use their own custom Makefiles to build their apps or other tools instead of Xcode? In my experience, I've found that Xcode is buggy and frustrating. However, I don't get any of the benefits of ZeroLink, thus greatly increasing compile-time.

I don't find XCode buggy. What is the last version you've used?

I don't have any problems building in XCode.

[Samad]

Xcode 1.1. I tried adding a second target that is a "Unix terminal" program (i.e., it is linked to libc++) and it kept raising exceptions. Plus, it would never build the second target. Anyway, after getting accustomed to Xemcas, I had a hard time switching to Xcode's editor.

[Thinine]

Update to Xcode 1.5 and see if the problems continue.

[Angus_D]

You can use emacs (although possibly not xemacs) with Xcode. I've never had any problems adding targets. Xcode 1.1 is fairly ancient, you really should use 1.5 if you can.

[Samad]

Xcode has its benefits, no doubt. But I was wondering if anyone out there used their own techniques for building applications. I personally like using Makefiles because, well, I'm a Unix fanatic � meaning a distrust for "one-size-fits-all" colossus like Xcode.

[davechen]

Yeah, I develop on a Mac, but I don't use Xcode. We use CMake to generate Makefiles for our code. Our code works on Linux too, and used to work on Windows. Someday we might fix the Windows build.

Also I prefer to use vim and gdb from the command line. GUI's just seem too slow sometimes. Or maybe I'm just an old dog who can't learn new tricks.

[Samad]

Oh yeah, and Xcode has issues with bison and flex�I've been completely unable to set specific options to pass to bison or flex. Makefiles seemed like the only solution to this problem.