[MonoTouch] Please advise wrt two apps with same source files

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Gents,

Using your fine ideas (thanx) I now
- created a Library project within the Solution,
- referenced it from both apps
- moved all common sources to the Library project
- moved common images and app data directories to the Library project
- symlinked to these directories from the app project directories
- included these (symlink) data and image directories and files in the projects
- set the build action for these image and data files to nothing in
the Library project
- set it to content in the app projects

Ready to build:

- library project compiles without probs
- the app projects main compilation: build complete: -- 0 errors, 0 warnings
- compiling to native code fails for both apps with:
- "Error: root assembly does not exist
    /Users/guivho/solution/App1/bin/$(Target)/$(Configuration)/App1.exe"
    or /Users/guivho/solution/App2/bin/$(Target)/$(Configuration)/App2.exe"

Any idea why mtouch fails? This is the build output (using -v -v -v)
(target iPhone/release, App1):

/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/bin/mtouch -v --nomanifest --nosign
-dev "/Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/XOOX_Pro/bin/$(Target)/Release/XOOX_Pro.app"
-r "/Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/Library/bin/Release/Library.dll"
-r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/System.dll"
-r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/System.Xml.dll"
-r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/System.Core.dll"
-r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/monotouch.dll"
-linksdkonly
-sdk "4.3"
-targetver "3.0"
-v -v -v -gcc_flags  "-framework MediaPlayer -framework AudioToolbox
-framework CoreGraphics
-framework QuartzCore -framework MessageUI -framework SystemConfiguration
-L/Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/XOOX_Pro
-lGoogleAdMobAds
-force_load /Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/XOOX_Pro/libGoogleAdMobAds.a"
"/Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/XOOX_Pro/bin/$(Target)/Release/XOOX_Pro.exe"

Framework is: /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS4.3.sdk

Error: root assembly does not exist
/Users/guivho/Mono/solution/App1/bin/iPhone/Release/App1.exe

mtouch exited with code 1

I get the same error for both the iPhone and iPhoneSimulator target and Debug,
Release, Distribution configurations.

Any ideas or suggestions? I'd like to stick to this setup, but it's
got to work off course...

TIA, Guido.

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:40, David Black <David.Black at casewise.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael
>
> It's also worth noting that the required bootstrap files include
>        Appstore images (logo_XX, Default-XXX.png etc)
>        Localization files (en.lproj, fr.lproj etc)
>        Any images / content files that you load that are loaded from file not from resource
>
> D
>
> I raised an enhancment request a while ago to ask that content files in assemblies marked as copy alwas be added to the output bundle. This would help..
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: monotouch-bounces at lists.ximian.com [mailto:monotouch-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Guido Van Hoecke
> Sent: 24 October 2011 08:07
> To: Michael Muegel
> Cc: monotouch at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [MonoTouch] Please advise wrt two apps with same source files
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 23:14, Michael Muegel <mike.muegel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In situations like this for Windows development I have created an
>> application library. You would have two MonoTouch app projects that
>> reference this library, which in turn reference all your other support
>> libraries. Each app project just has a few files to bootstrap things and
>> invoke the common app library with a flag for the mode/etc.
>
> That seems a very interesting approach!
>
> Currently I have two separate projects within one solution, and both projects
> have a 'Common' subdirectory with all common sources. I use a little perl script
> to synchronize the sources. But I'll now move these common sources to a new
> library project within this solution and go for your approach. Definitely
> cleaner!
>
> Thanx for the idea.
>
>
> Guido
>
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