Re: Helping with MPS

[Jonathon McKitrick via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 04:48:19PM +0200, Gerd Mllmann wrote:
: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@SDF.ORG> writes:
: > I got the patch installed and re-ran autoconf and then configure.
: >
: > But when running make I get this:
: >
: > xcrun xcodebuild -project code/mps.xcodeproj -config Debug
: > xcrun: error: unable to find utility "xcodebuild", not a developer tool or in PATH
: > make: *** [build-via-xcode] Error 72
: >
: > I have xcode command line tools installed, and when building emacs itself,
: > the xcrun/xcodebuild commands work fine.
: 
: Building Emacs just uses clang and gmake, so that can work without xcrun
: working. Are you using clang from Xcode?

I believe so, yes. Not sure it's relevant, but that patch I applied for
arm-apple-darwin has

      BUILD_TARGET=build-via-xcode

And the error message above indicates it's using the mps.xcodeproj file,
so wouldn't that require xcode rather than clang and gmake? I just don't
know enough about autotools.

: > What am I missing?
: 
: Something is wrong with your Xcode installation, I'd say, but I don't
: know what that could be. What does
: 
:   xcode-select --print-path
: 
: say? It should print the path under which the developer tools are found.
: See also
: 
:   man xcode-select

Yep, that's the first thing I explored, and got this:

~/p/mps ❯❯❯ xcode-select -p
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

So xcode tools *are* there, I use them with brew and other tools all the time.

: (I'm also not a Linux user, on my own computers, never have been. Always
: FreeBSD until I switched to OSX/macOS because I needed a working laptop
: for work :-)).

That's exactly the path I followed as well!


Jonathon McKitrick
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'My other computer is your Windows box.'