Installing Code::Blocks from source on Mac OS X

Install Xcode Tools

http://developer.apple.com/tools/

Build wxWidgets 2.6

http://wxwidgets.org/dl_mac2.htm

Bundle application for Mac

After building codeblocks in the regular Unix way, you need to bundle it with the icons and various other info that it needs to make a regular stand-alone Macintosh application.

There are two ways of accomplishing this, old Mac OS-style resource or NeXT-style bundle. The old resources are handy while developing, while bundles are more suitable for release.

1. Mac OS (resource)

Handy while developing, as you only need to add an icon.

Files needed:

• http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/CodeBlocks.r.gz (Rez icon, gzipped)

First we install the program to the PREFIX directory of your choice:

$PREFIX/bin
$PREFIX/lib
$PREFIX/share/codeblocks

Add a custom icon to the application, to make it receive events:

sudo /Developer/Tools/Rez -d __DARWIN__ -t APPL -d __WXMAC__ CodeBlocks.r Carbon.r -o $PREFIX/bin/codeblocks
sudo /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a C $PREFIX/bin/codeblocks

Start the application with a small prefix shell wrapper like this:

DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:$PREFIX/lib
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

$PREFIX/bin/codeblocks --prefix=$PREFIX

2. NeXT (bundle)

This does not involve resources, and is more relocatable.

Files needed:

• http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/CodeBlocks.Info.plist
• http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/CodeBlocks.sh (shell wrapper)
• http://www.algonet.se/~afb/wx/CodeBlocks.icns (Mac OS X icon)

Traditionally it would involve Frameworks and Resources, but we'll just avoid those here and use "lib" and "share/codeblocks" instead. The MacOS program will be a shell wrapper that calls "bin/codeblocks", like above.

Setup a hierarchy like this, and copy the files from the regular build/install and the above file list to it:

CodeBlocks.app
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/Info.plist
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/MacOS
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/MacOS/CodeBlocks
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/Resources
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/Resources/CodeBlocks.icns
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/bin
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/lib
CodeBlocks.app/Contents/share/codeblocks

The CodeBlocks application can now be moved with the Finder, and started up like a regular Mac application.