README.OSX.txt - 2010-10-23 - Building FLTK under Apple OS X ------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS ========== 1 INTRODUCTION 2 HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING GCC 2.1 Prerequisites 2.2 Downloading and Unpacking 2.3 Configuring FLTK 2.4 Building FLTK 2.5 Testing FLTK 2.6 Installing FLTK 2.7 Creating new Projects 3 HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING XCODE3 3.1 Prerequisites 3.2 Downloading and Unpacking 3.3 Configuring FLTK 3.4 Building FLTK 3.5 Testing FLTK 3.6 Uninstalling previous versions of FLTK 3.7 Installing FLTK 3.8 Installing Little Helpers 3.9 Creating new Projects 4 DOCUMENT HISTORY 1 INTRODUCTION ================= FLTK currently supports the following development environments on the Apple OS X platform: - gcc command line tools - Xcode 3.x CAUTION: gcc command line built libraries and Xcode created Frameworks should not be mixed! 2 HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING GCC ================================ 2.1 Prerequisites -------------------- In order to build FLTK from the command line, you need to install the Xcode developer environment from the Apple Inc. web site. The developer environment can be downloaded from the Mac Dev Center for free: http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html After downloading and installing, you need to launch the Terminal. Terminal.app is located in the "Utilities" folder inside the "Applications" folder. I like to keep the Terminal in the Dock. 2.2 Downloading and Unpacking -------------------------------- Download FLTK from here: http://www.fltk.org/software.php If you are familiar with "subversion" and like to stay current with your version, you will find the subversion access parameters at the bottom of that page. Unpack FLTK into a convinient location. I like to have everything in my dev directory: cd mkdir dev cd dev mv ~/Downloads/fltk-1.3.xxxx.tar.gz . tar xvfz fltk-1.3.xxxx.tar.gz cd fltk-1.3.xxxx 2.3 Configuring FLTK ----------------------- Stay in your FLTK source-code directory. Type: autoconf Now configure your FLTK installation: ./configure ADVANCED: type "./configure --help" to get a complete list of optional configurations parameters. These should be pretty self-explenatory. Some more details can be found in README. To create Universal Binaries, start "configure" with these flags: ./configure --with-archflags="-arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64" :END_ADVANCED The configuration script will check your machine for the required resources which should all have been part of your Xcode installation. Review the Configuration Summary, maybe take some notes. 2.4 Building FLTK -------------------- Now this is easy. Stay in your FLTK source-code directory and type: make The entire FLTK toolkit including many test programs will be built for you. No warnings should appear, but "ranlib" may complain about a few modules having no symbols. This is normal and can safely be ignored. 2.5 Testing FLTK ------------------- After a successful build, you can test FLTK's capabilities: test/demo 2.6 Installing FLTK ---------------------- If you did not change any of the configuration settings, FLTK will be installed in "/usr/local/include" and "/usr/local/lib" by typing sudo make install It is possible to install FLTK without superuser previleges by changing the installation path to a location within the user account by adding the "--prefix=PREFIX" parameters to the "./configure" command. 2.7 Creating new Projects ---------------------------- FLTK provides a neat script named "fltk-config" that can provide all the flags needed to build FLTK applications using the same flags that were used to build the library itself. Running "fltk-config" without arguments will print a list options. The easiest call to compile an FLTK application from a single source file is: fltk-config --compile myProgram.cxx "fltk-config" and "fluid" will be installed in "/usr/local/bin/" by default. I recommend that you add it to the command search path. 3 HOW TO BUILD FLTK USING XCODE3 =================================== 3.1 Prerequisites -------------------- In order to build FLTK from within Xcode, you need to install the Xcode developer environment from the Apple Inc. web site. The developer environment can be downloaded from the Mac Dev Center for free: http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html 3.2 Downloading and Unpacking -------------------------------- Download FLTK from here: http://www.fltk.org/software.php If you are familiar with "subversion" and like to stay current with your version, you will find the subversion access parameters at the bottom of that page. You can use the SCM system that is built into Xcode. Unpack FLTK by double-clicking it and copy the new folder into a convenient location. I have set up a "dev" folder in my home folder for all my projects. 3.3 Configuring FLTK ----------------------- Launch Xcode. Open the project file in .../fltk-1.3.xxxx/ide/Xcode3/FLTK.xcodeproj Use the "Project" pulldown menu to change "Active Build Configuration" to "Release". Change the "Active Architecture" and "Active Build Configuration" as desired. 3.4 Building FLTK -------------------- Use the "Project" pulldown menu to set the "Active Target" to "Release". Use the "Project" pulldown menu to set the "Active Target" to "Demo". Select "Build" form the "Build" menu to create all libraries and test applications. All frameworks and apps will be loacted in "./ide/Xcode3/build/Release/". 3.5 Testing FLTK ------------------- Select "Build and Run" form the "Build" menu to run the Demo program. Use "Demo" to explore all test programs. 3.6 Uninstalling previous versions of FLTK --------------------------------------------- Remove FLTK frameworks: sudo rm -r /Library/Frameworks/fltk*.framework Remove Fluid and other possibly utilities: sudo rm -r /Developer/Applications/Utilities/FLTK/ 3.7 Installing FLTK ---------------------- When distributing FLTK applications, the FLTK frameworks should be made part of the application package. For development however, it is very convenient to have the Release-mode Frameworks in a standard location. For Xcode project template use, all FLTK frameworks should be copied from "./ide/Xcode3/build/Release/" to "/Library/Frameworks/". The FLTK header files for all FLTK frameworks will then be at "/Library/Frameworks/fltk.framework/ Headers/". Add this path to the header search path of your projects. sudo cp -R ide/Xcode3/build/Release/fltk*.framework /Library/Frameworks/ Many FLTK applications will use Fluid, the FLTK User Interface builder, to generate C++ source code from .fl resource files. Add Fluid to the developer tools: sudo mkdir /Developer/Applications/Utilities/FLTK/ sudo cp -R ide/Xcode3/build/Release/Fluid.app /Developer/Applications/Utilities/FLTK/ 3.8 Installing Little Helpers -------------------------------- - Project Templates: Project Templates are the quickest way to vcreate a new FLTK application from within Xcode. The included project builds an FLTK based Cocoa application written in C++ with support for the Fluid UI designer, image reading, and OpenGL. Unsused FLTK sub-Frameworks can simply be removed from the project. The template assumes that Release versions of the FLTK frameworks are installed in /Library/Frameworks as described above. First, we need to create the Template folder: sudo mkdir -p /Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project\ Templates/ Next, we copy the project template over: sudo cp -r ide/Xcode3/Project\ Templates/* /Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project\ Templates/ After restarting Xcode, the dialog for "File > New Project..." will offer an FLTK 1.3 user template which is ready to compile. - Fluid file handling This section assumes that a Relaease version of Fluid is installed in "/Developer/Applications/Utilities/FLTK/" as describe above. It will installe a new file type which opens Fluid as an editor for files ending in ".fl". First, we need to create the spec folder: sudo mkdir -p /Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Specifications/ Next, we copy the Fluid specification over: sudo cp ide/Xcode3/fluid.pbfilespec /Library/Application\ Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Specifications/ Open Xcode preferences and select the File Types tab. Find the "sourcecode.fluid" entry in "file > text > sourcecode" and set the external editor to Fluid. When radding ".fl" files, set the File Type in the Info dialog to "sourcecode.fluid" and Xcode will edit your fil in Fluid when double-clicking. - More TODO: Language Definition TODO: Build Rules 3.9 Creating new Projects ---------------------------- If the little helpers above were installed, the menu "File > New Project..." will pop up a dialog that offers a User Template named Fluid. Select it and follow the instructions. You will need to add the "AudioToolbox.framework" manually which is needed to create warning beeps. 4 DOCUMENT HISTORY ===================== Oct 29 2010 - matt: removed warnings Oct 24 2010 - matt: restructured entire document and verified instructions