One Project two executables?

General
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Can a single Xojo Project file produce two different executable at the same time?
Say for example you are writing a client/server and both derived from the same code base.
And you change the code base and then build, it should build both the client and the server.

Can it?

2

[quote=199953:@Brian O’Brien]Can a single Xojo Project file produce two different executable at the same time?
Say for example you are writing a client/server and both derived from the same code base.
And you change the code base and then build, it should build both the client and the server.

Can it?[/quote]

It looks possible with conditional compilation.

You could have a boolean constant in App, for instance “Server”, that you set to true or false.

Then in App.Open, for instance, you could have

#if Serverthen // Do whatever is necessary for server #Else // Do whatever is necessary for client #endif

3

Yeah but is it to rename the .exe via conditions? Maybe with an IDE script or something?

4

You probably can with a doShellCommand.

5

Make allows things like this in unix worlds etc…
I was more thinking along the lines off ‘make all’

6

Via IdeScript is really simple
as example:
you have a Module (module1) with 3 constants:
isServer - Boolean you use in your app to use the code for server instead o the code for client

  #if Module1.isServer
  //Server code
  #else
 //Client code
  #endif

appName - String for the app name, you will use as MacAppName or WindowsAppName = #Module1.appName
bundleId - String for the bundleIdentifier, you will use as (OS X) Bundle Identifier= #Module1.bundleId

The script will be:

sub checkForBuild(mode as boolean,isWin as boolean)
  call SelectProjectItem "Module1"
  constantValue("isServer")=if(mode,"true","false")
  if mode then
    ConstantValue("appName")="TestServer"+if(isWin,".exe","")
    ConstantValue("bundleId")="com.test.test.server"
  else
    ConstantValue("appName")="TestClient"+if(isWin,".exe","")
    ConstantValue("bundleId")="com.test.test.client"
  end if
end sub

//Build the two versions for Mac
  checkForBuild(true,false)
  call BuildApp(7,false)
  
  checkForBuild(false,false)
  call BuildApp(7,true)

//or for win
 checkForBuild(true,true)
  call BuildApp(3,false)
  
  checkForBuild(false,true)
  call BuildApp(3,true)
7

Hmm… I need to try this again. The last time I was able to change the bundle id only once and then it didn’t change the bundle id again. Also building was async, wasn’t it?