Is GiderosiOSPlayer.xcodeproj current for compiling Gideros on the Mac?

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020 Accepted Answer

  Yes, it is current, but it is not what you think. It is only used for the bundled pre-built ios player, and is bound to disappear in the future in favor of a player exported from gideros studio the usual way.
  
  You'd want to modify main gideros ios library (ios/iosplayer) and/or the Xcode template (ui/Templates/Xcode4/iOS Template) instead.

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• John Member

  April 2020

  Thanks for quick response.
  
  Neither of those project compiles for me and so I've not got a handle as to what each Xcode project does yet so I'm just guessing as to which project I actually need.
  
  Case example:
  
  I get UIDevice undefined when I try to compile ios/iosplayer
  
  If you go to gideros/gideros/blob/master/libgid/src/ios/platform-ios.mm
  
  Line 185-196
  
  static std::string g_propResult;
  const char* g_getProperty(const char* what, const char* arg){
  g_propResult="";
  if (what&&(!strcmp(what,"batteryLevel"))) {
  UIDevice *myDevice = [UIDevice currentDevice];
  [myDevice setBatteryMonitoringEnabled:YES];
  double batLeft = (float)[myDevice batteryLevel] * 100;
  NSString * levelLabel = [NSString stringWithFormat:@%.f%, batLeft];
  g_propResult=[levelLabel UTF8String];
  }
  return g_propResult.c_str();
  }
  
  The batteryLevel doesn't apply to the Mac build so it need the
  
  #if TARGET_OS_OSX
  #else
  #endif
  
  block in there.
  
  I realise this file had a recent change to the code and you haven't had the need to compile the mac build as to why this has happened.
  
  That is just 1 example.
  
  I'll go through those 2 projects and fix the issues I am having when I have more time.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  April 2020 edited April 2020

  Yes, I didn't bother making it mac aware since native mac export isn't supported yet. Switch your build target to build for ios, not macos.
  
  EDIT: I usually build it from a terminal window, typing 'make -f scripts/Makefile.gid ios.install', see https://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/Compiling_Gideros_Source#2.2.2_iOS_:

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• Nanocore Member

  May 2020

  Should it be possible to *just* build the GiderosiOSPlayer app? I used the source tarball (not git clone...yet) and used the xcode project for ios/GiderosiOSPlayer and manually copied all the missing references (maybe these are created when you build the entire suite) and build the libgvfs and liblua. These had xcode projects. And now it is failing during linking when trying to find the libgideros.a. But libgideros doesn't have an xcode project. So, Im close, but that opens the question of whether the GiderosiOSPlayer app could be built by itself.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  May 2020

  Well you figured out the answer: no it can't be built by itself since it requires libgideros.a, which is built using iosplayer xcode project, as well as base libraries in their respective folders. GiderosiOSPlayer project directory is bound to disappear actually, it is a customized duplicate of the Xcode template in ui folder, and it is difficult to maintain.

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• Nanocore Member

  May 2020

  Thanks for that. I have cloned Gideros and then ran the make statement that you mentioned in your previous reply. Interesting that it is failing not being able to find lua.h in a couple of the plugins builds. I would think I can get around that with a bit more effort. Thanks.
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  May 2020

  You may need to run a qt build before, as it sets up a header folder. You may also need to run make prep.repo to set up some git submodules.

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• Nanocore Member

  May 2020

  Ok, will do. That must be what I missed/skipped.
  

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