[Libreoffice] Mac OS X Discussion of Using Xcode and SDK >= 10.6

[Michael Meeks]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 11:42 -0400, Peter Teeson wrote:
> I'm just musing here but it seems to me one might be able to use
> the existing source tree, and even the make scripts, and do a Mac
> build using Xcode and it's capabilities.

	Again - I have high hopes for gnumake :-) In particular, I want to get:

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks_Complete_List#use_the_CLang.2B.2B_static_analyser_to_find_bugs

	working - to improve our lint tooling, and hopefully to use some of the
mozilla compile tooling to get our code annotated more helpfully wrt.
'override' and 'final' type helpers for virtual methods - as an example.

> Apple now seems to have pretty firmly moved over to LLVM and away from GCC.
> They are even working on LLDB (or whatever the debugger is called.)

	Apparently they hate the GPLv3 - which is a shame really.

	ATB,

		Michael.

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