Re: Delivering application to MacOS and static linking

Hello Yen-Ju,

thanks for your help. I prefer using gnustep-make, I read the articles
you've sent but I don't really see how to do that with gnustep-make...
Could you give me an actual example?

Regards,

DASNOIS Benjamin

On 5/21/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Benjamin Dasnois <[email protected]> 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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