MacOS Xcode Hints and Tips

create a new project "Application→Carbon Application" with the desired project name and path.

In the project "Sources" group remove the automatically created .pch and .c files. Remove both references and files from disk as they are not needed. You can now add your own source code into this group. Make sure you add the files as relative to your project.

In the project "Resources" group remove all the contents (references only).

In finder move these resource files into a sub folder "resources/macos/".

Re-add these files in their new location. Make sure you add the files as relative to your project.

create a new project group called "Projects" and add the macos.xcodeproj and modules.xcodeproj files. Make sure you add the files as relative to your project.

Select the linking icon for the libraries of each of these projects (the red target symbol on the right). It may be necessary to align the configurations by opening the sub project and selected the same build configuration as in the parent project.

add "AGL.framework", "OpenGL.frmaework" and "QuickTime.framework" frameworks to the project using an absolute path.

open the target settings window and change the following

General Tab:

Add in the platform and modules targets as dependencies.

Build Tab:

Build Products Path:                                    app
Intermediate Build Files Path:                          build
Per-configuration Build Products Path:                  $(BUILD_DIR)
Header Search Paths:                                    ../../pisd_libs/platform/include ../../pisd_libs/platform/include/macos ../../pisd_libs/modules/code/** $(HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS)
Library Search Paths:                                   $(LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS) ../../pisd_libs/platform/lib ../../pisd_libs/modules/lib
ZeroLink:                                               off
Product Name:                                           <app_name>_macosd (for debug target)
                                                        <app_name>_macosr (for release target)
Info.plist File:                                        resources/macos/Info.plist
Prefix File:                                            ../../pisd_libs/platform/include/macos/macos_dev_prefix.h (for debug target)
                                                        ../../pisd_libs/platform/include/macos/macos_prefix.h (for release target)

Create an icon .icns resource file

Place it in the "resources/macos" folder

Add it to the resources group in the xcode project

Edit the Info.plist file and change the "CFBundleIconFile" value string to "icon"