AquaBuild/Cocoa Informations

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This page documents the steps required to use the Mac OS X Cocoa Runtime Environment and Objective-C++ to program the Aqua Mac OS X port of OOo

These are draft changes, yet to be verified!

1 Changes to MakeFiles
2 Changes to Header Files
3 Changes to Source Files
4 Current Open Issues
5 Cocoa migration: changelog
6 Important Links

Changes to MakeFiles

IMPORTANT: make the changes in solenv can currently lead to garbage in some modules, and the build is broken (e.g. testshl2 )

The most simple, waiting we decide a complete strategy, is to add what follows in the makefiles of the modules where you added Cocoa changes.

In <module>/<your_tree>/unxmacx.mk, add the "-x-objective-c++" flag to CFLAGSCXX, in a new conditional section under Compilation Flags after the definition of CFLAGSCXX like this: [c++,N] .IF "$(GUIBASE)" == "aqua" CFLAGSCXX+=-x objective-c++ -fobjc-exceptions .ENDIF

And if you encounter linking issues, add "LINKFLAGS+=-framework Cocoa" flag to LINKFLAGSDEFS, in the conditional section right under "LINKFLAGS+=-lobjc" [c++,N] .IF "$(GUIBASE)" == "aqua" LINKFLAGS+=-framework Cocoa # Sometimes we still use files that would be in a GUIBASE="unx" specific directory # because they really aren't GUIBASE specific, so we've got to account for that here. INCGUI+= -I$(PRJ)$/unx/inc .ENDIF

Changes to Header Files

Add the following to include Carbon and Cocoa :

[c++,N]


include <premac.h>
include <Carbon/Carbon.h>
import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
include <postmac.h>

Changes to Source Files

Anything besides the Cocoa code? Some additions to the OOo C++ style guide perhaps?

Current Open Issues

I have a conflict with the String class when using the -x objective-c++ switch. Can this be fixed by adding the String class to premac.h and postmac.h?

I found that I needed to put a call to NSApplicationLoad to get the Spellcheck code to run. Is there a problem with multiple calls to NSApplicationLoad?