Re: Release works, Debug (still) crashes on OS X Leopard, Xcode 3.0 (Part 2) [SOLVED]

[Warren Young]

Graham Reitz wrote:
> 
> Why doesn't mysql++ [have a special debug build mode]?

There's no real history of such things on *ix systems, so where it is 
done, it's done in some way particular to that system.  And, if you use 
the Unixy command line build systems on OS X, the current behavior is 
fine.  This is no doubt why you're the first to bring this to my attention.

Compare Visual Studio.  Almost everyone uses the IDE, not the command 
line tools, and the IDE sets up both debug and release builds for any 
new project.  It's both standard and the default, so everyone does it.

On OS X, what we have here are two different use cases, so they should 
be handled separately: autoconf with no special debug modes for command 
line geeks like me, and Xcode project files set up to build both debug 
and release versions for folk like you.  Bakefile can generate Xcode 
project files, so it's just a matter of using them.

I nominate you to do it. :)  Seriously.  I use OS X every day, but 
beyond some "Hello, world" toy programs, I've never used Xcode the IDE. 
  You're in the best position to scratch this itch.

Xcode project support apparently goes back to 0.1.9 in Bakefile, but 
there are reportedly big improvements in svn, so I'd recommend you use 
that, at least to start.  Later you can roll back to 0.1.9 to see if it 
still works adequately.  I'm already of half a mind to make MySQL++ v3.0 
wait on Bakefile 0.2.3 to get VC2003 support.

The v3 effort is getting close to winding up, but you've probably got a 
few weeks at least to get something to me.