Greetings everyone.
I started learning Xcode a while ago and managed to bootstrap myself to a
position to actually be able to write some code that works. Xcode isn't
exactly a beginner friendly suite, to say the least, but with some patience it
can be learned. Then I got a new Macbook and it came with Xcode 4 and replaced
version 3 on my old machine. I think it is better, but of course it was a huge
change at the start of a learning curve that had barely started.
I do (did) most of my coding in Perl, and started using Xcode to replace the
GUI Perl-Tk. That lets me do stuff in Perl that I haven't learned yet to do in
Objective C, but still display results in OSX's pretty GUI. In Xcode 3, I
would put the scripts and data in (jobfolder)/build/debug and call it, as with
--- int result = system("./perlscript.pl"); Worked fine.
Along comes Xcode 4 and no build/debug folder. The docs say that any file or
resource is now to be placed in the Supporting Files folder and they will be
found. But, a bare call like the above doesn't find the script. I have to
hard code the path like --- int result =
system("/Users/myself/Programming/CocoaLearn/perlscript.pl"); and it works
fine, but hard coding paths in a program is a mess, of course. If I hard code
the path, it doesn't matter if I told the Supporting Files folder about it.
I have put the test script everywhere in the folder chain of the project, used
the "Add files to project...", played with the Bundle path, used all the Unix
precursors like ./ and ~ and so forth. Either I am not finding the proper
documentation, or am mis-reading it, or maybe just not seeing the forest for
the trees.
Anybody?
Thanks.
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