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Asked: 2026-05-31T09:17:34+00:00

I’ve created a firebreath plugin on mac os which HAVE TO pop up a

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I’ve created a firebreath plugin on mac os which HAVE TO pop up a window to get user input(just a text field and two buttons).

This is my current projectDef.cmake for testing.

file (GLOB XIB RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
Mac/bundle_template/input.xib
)

# Make sure we can find the 'ibtool' program. If we can NOT find it we
# skip generation of this project
find_program(IBTOOL ibtool HINTS "/usr/bin" "${OSX_DEVELOPER_ROOT}/usr/bin")
if (${IBTOOL} STREQUAL "IBTOOL-NOTFOUND")
    message(SEND_ERROR "ibtool can not be found and is needed to compile the .xib files.      It should have been installed with the Apple developer tools. The default system paths were searched in addition to ${OSX_DEVELOPER_ROOT}/usr/bin")
endif()

# make the compiled nib file to desktop for testing
set (NIBFILE /Users/develop/Desktop/input.nib)

add_custom_command (TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME} POST_BUILD 
    COMMAND ${IBTOOL} --errors --warnings --notices --output-format human-readable-text  --compile ${NIBFILE} ${XIB}
    COMMENT "Compiling input.xib")

set (SOURCES
    ${SOURCES}
    ${PLATFORM}
    ${XIB}
)

the add_custom_command block takes no effect from cmake, no nib file compiled when my plugin target build successfully, but ibtool works from command line in terminal.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Problem solved. See this link. That method works. My final solution is as follows:

    //projectDef.cmake

set(XIB "Mac/bundle_template/input.xib")

add_mac_plugin(${PROJECT_NAME} ${PLIST} ${STRINGS} ${LOCALIZED} SOURCES ${XIB})

//Mac.cmake in "add_mac_plugin" macro

if (${ARGC} GREATER 5)
add_library( ${PROJECT_NAME} MODULE
    ${SOURCES} 
    ${ARGN}
    )
else()
add_library( ${PROJECT_NAME} MODULE
    ${SOURCES} 
    )
endif()

if (${ARGC} GREATER 5)
set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES
    BUNDLE 1
    BUNDLE_EXTENSION plugin
    XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_WRAPPER_EXTENSION plugin  #sets the extension to .plugin
    XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_MACH_O_TYPE mh_bundle
    XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_INFOPLIST_FILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle/Info.plist
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle/Info.plist
    RESOURCE ${ARGN}
    LINK_FLAGS "-Wl,- exported_symbols_list,${FB_ESC_ROOT_DIR}/gen_templates/ExportList_plugin.txt")
else()
set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES
    BUNDLE 1
    BUNDLE_EXTENSION plugin
    XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_WRAPPER_EXTENSION plugin  #sets the extension to .plugin
    XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_MACH_O_TYPE mh_bundle
    XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_INFOPLIST_FILE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle/Info.plist
    MACOSX_BUNDLE_INFO_PLIST ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bundle/Info.plist
    LINK_FLAGS "-Wl,-exported_symbols_list,${FB_ESC_ROOT_DIR}/gen_templates/ExportList_plugin.txt")
endif()

    My modification seems not so beautiful, I don’t understand cmake very well. hi taxilian, can you update the macro to support external resources like xib? By the way, thanks a lot, man.

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