Maya C++ Wizards

A Maya C++ Wizards for Wizards for Visual Studio and Xcode
optimized and using pre-compiled headers

Written by Cyrille Fauvel (Autodesk Developer Network)
http://www.autodesk.com/adn
http://around-the-corner.typepad.com/

1) Xcode Install

There is 2 way to install the Wizards for Xcode. You can either modify Xcode.app directly (requires super-user rights), or modify per-user Templates. You may also want to read this article if you do not have the right OS & compiler version.

Modifying Xcode.app

Maya 2014 (see requirements) In the following instructions Xcode was renamed Xcode-4.3.3 to match the Maya required compiler version. On your system, it is by default just Xcode.app.

• copy 'Xcode/Maya 2014.xctemplate' in '/Applications/Xcode-4.3.3.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Xcode/Templates/Project Templates/Mac/Autodesk'
• copy 'Maya Command.xctemplate' and 'Maya Node.xctemplate' in '/Applications/Xcode-4.3.3.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Xcode/Templates/File Templates/Maya'

Maya 2015 (see requirements) In the following instructions Xcode was renamed Xcode-5.0.2 to match the Maya required compiler version. On your system, it is by default just Xcode.app.

• copy 'Xcode/Maya 2015.xctemplate' in '/Applications/Xcode-5.0.2.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Xcode/Templates/Project Templates/Mac/Autodesk'
• copy 'Maya Command.xctemplate' and 'Maya Node.xctemplate' in '/Applications/Xcode-5.0.2.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Xcode/Templates/File Templates/Maya'

Per-user Templates

Go to '~/Library/Developer/Xcode' and create, if they do not exist yet, the following 2 folders:

• Project Templates
• File Templates

, Maya 2014 (see requirements) In the following instructions Xcode was renamed Xcode-4.3.3 to match the Maya required compiler version. On your system, it is by default just Xcode.app.

• copy 'Xcode/Maya 2014.xctemplate' in '~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/Project Templates/Mac/Autodesk'
• copy 'Maya Command.xctemplate' and 'Maya Node.xctemplate' in ‘~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/File Templates/Maya'

Maya 2015 (see requirements) In the following instructions Xcode was renamed Xcode-5.0.2 to match the Maya required compiler version. On your system, it is by default just Xcode.app.

• copy 'Xcode/Maya 2015.xctemplate' in '~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/Project Templates/Mac/Autodesk'
• copy 'Maya Command.xctemplate' and 'Maya Node.xctemplate' in '~/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates/File Templates/Maya'

a pkg installer project will be coming soon

Note: Maya 2014 requires using the Mac 10.6 SDK (Snow Leopard). Xcode-4.3.3 is the latest compatible version which can use the 10.6 SDK. If using an older version and/or if you migrated to Mountain Lion, you will need to change the project settings to use the 10.7 SDK (Lion) to be able to compile.

2) Visual Studio Install

• copy 'MayaAppWiz', 'MayaCommand', 'MayaNode' and 'MayaWizCommon' in a directory of your choice.
• copy '_Install/VC' into 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC' and/or 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC'
• edit the .vsz files you copied in the previous step and change:
  • [WIZVERSION] into 10.0 or 11.0 depending of the Visual Version you installed it into
  • [TARGETDIR] to the directory where you copied the wizards files

There is a wix/msi installer project included in case you want to get it installed for you. The installer will work for Maya 2014, Visual Studio 2010/12 Pro/Standard and Express editions. If you do not have Maya 2014 installed, you can either:

• remove the Maya 2014 check in property.wxi line #20,21
• or change the chack for Maya 2013 or older in property.wxi line #20,21
• or add a key in the registry at HKLM\Software\Autodesk\Maya\2014\Setup\InstallPath - MAYA_INSTALL_LOCATION

Note: Maya 2014 requires using the VC 10.0 Service Pack 1 runtime, if using Visual Studio 2012, do not forget to change the 'Platform Toolkit' to vc100

License

This sample is licensed under the terms of the MIT License. Please see the LICENSE file for full details.

Written by

Cyrille Fauvel (Autodesk Developer Network)
http://www.autodesk.com/adn
http://around-the-corner.typepad.com/