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

[Guido Van Hoecke]

The symlink approach does not work. Monodevelop does not allow to assign icons
if they are included in the project as symlinks. So I duplicated the image and
data dirs in the two app project dirs. However the apps still don't build.

Anyone?

TIA, Guido

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 14:15, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gents,
>
> (Same message, minor corrections)
>
> 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/App1/bin/$(Target)/Release/App1.app"
> -r "/Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/Library/bin/Release/Library.dll"
> -r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/System.dll"
> -r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/System.Xml.dll"
> -r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/System.Core.dll"
> -r "/Developer/MonoTouch/usr/lib/mono/2.1/monotouch.dll"
> -linksdkonly
> -sdk "4.3"
> -targetver "3.0"
> -v -v -v -gcc_flags  "-framework MediaPlayer -framework AudioToolbox
> -framework CoreGraphics
> -framework QuartzCore -framework MessageUI -framework SystemConfiguration
> -L/Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/App1
> -lGoogleAdMobAds
> -force_load /Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/App1/libGoogleAdMobAds.a"
> "/Users/guivho/Mono/Solution/App1/bin/$(Target)/Release/App1.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..
>>
>>
>> David Black
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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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