[zeromq-dev] Cocoapods integration for Mac / iOS development

[Matt Connolly]

Hi,

I’ve just explored and set up cocoa pods integration for zeromq and czmq in my github forks at:

https://github.com/mattconnolly/zeromq3-x/tree/cocoapods
https://github.com/mattconnolly/czmq/tree/cocoapods

For those who aren’t familiar, Cocoapods is a source code dependency management tool for Mac & iOS, similar to “bundler” in the world of ruby.

In particular, Cocoapods is very good at bringing source code into the Xcode IDE where cross building for different platforms (eg: 32 &  64 bit fat builds, or arm7 & arm7s fat builds) can be done easily. This can be a real pain from make scripts which in my experience are only well suited for building for the local machine.

One thing I had to do though was run through the autogen and configure steps to get the platform.hpp and platform.h files to be prebuilt.

I’ve copied these into a separate “cocoapods” directory with an explanation that these files are just for use by cocoapods.

Is this okay? Or would there be a better place to keep these files?


Regards,
Matt