Change plugin target from CS 5.5 to CS 5.0

[Ondrej Vyhlidal]

Hi all,

I would like to ask, what steps I should proceed to support both versions of InDesign cs 5.0 and 5.5?

Iam using cs 5.5 SDKs on mac os, should I add something in resource files?

Thanks in advice

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

You should add a two target's to your project for CS5 and CS5.5. If you have used XCConfig in your project then it is quite easy to seperate the settings for both the targets in these files and base the target on these XCConfig files. Basically the build setting of interest that would require a change are as follows

1. The path to the SDK

2. The libs and frameworks of repective SDK's needs to be linked to the targets.

3. Path of the ODRFC command in the "Rules" section.

Manan Joshi

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[Ondrej Vyhlidal]

Hi Manan,

thank you again for very good explanation. May I have a few more questions?

Regarding the XCConfig file, right now I have 3 - release, debug and one other - all of them were automatically generated by dollyxs. If I understand correctly I should create one more, that corresponds to my new target.

Regarding the path to the SDK - do you mean set the Header serach paths, framework search paths and rez search paths?

Thank you in advice

[Manan Joshi]

Yes you will have to create a set of release and debug XCConfig files for you new target. Basically the other XCConfig contains the settings pertaining to the project as a whole and the project file should be based on it. After that the settings specific to a debug or release builds are placed in the other config files based on which we create our targets.

Now as regards to the path to the sdk, what i do is i give all the path the say Header search path etc relative to the Adobe SDK using a macro so all i need to just change the value of this macro and i am all set to create a new target for myself.

I hope i have made myself more clear in this post.

If you find this post useful then pls mark it as helpful or correct so that others could also benefit from it. I have observed that a lot of problems arise due to poor project setting which wastes time, everytime we need to extend the project for ex. we add a new module to the project or as in your case create a new target.

It would be very nice if other august members could also contribute and share their wisdom on this thread.

Manan Joshi

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