Re: Delivering application to MacOS and static linking

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 5/21/07, Benjamin Dasnois <benjamin.dasnois@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> as my first post to this list, I would like to say that this project
> is really impressing and that's something I'm going to use from now.
> :) I hope I will be able later to give back to the community.
>
> But, nowadays I have some problems; I'm a student in a computing
> school and I have to develop a tool that will work on MacOS. My main
> concern is that once compiled I should be able to distribute my
> application to MacOS users without telling them to install gnustep and
> renaissance. I can compile on a MacOS so I think that gnustep is not a
> problem but what about renaissance? I thought about static linking but
> I've to admit that I don't really know how to do that... (I use
> gnustep's make system)

 The way I do is that I build application on Unix with GNUstep
 and on Mac with Cocoa.
 In that case, you don't need to include GNUstep on Mac.
 If you are using 3rd party frameworks on Mac, ex, Renaissance,
 you can include that framework inside your application for delivery.
 Therefore, users don't need to install that framework in advance.

 There are 2 ways of doing it:
 1. Use xcode for your project on Mac. It should be easier,
     but you have to maintain both GNUmakefile for GNUstep and xcode
project for Cocoa.
 2. If you like gnustep-make as me,
     you can use GNUmakefile.postamble to move that framework into
     AppName.app/Contents/Frameworks/
     You also need to use 'install_name_tool' to change symbols.
     You can google it or these two links may be useful:
     http://qin.laya.com/tech_coding_help/dylib_linking.html
     http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq09-mac-deployment.html

 Yen-Ju

> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> DASNOIS Benjamin
>
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