Re: mac os x framework linking target

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Jul 29, 2006, at 5:48 AM, Daniel Rogers wrote:

> I'm interested in developing a "framework" building feature for  
> libtool.
> Linking the shared library for a framework is exactly the same as
> linking a typical shared library.  It's already quite close.  The
> differences are described below, but they are summed up as, I need  
> to be
> able to create a shared library artifact that doesn't start with lib,
> and the shared library needs to be placed into a particular folder
> hierarchy, so those parameters would probably have to be passed to
> libtool as well (in particular $(FRAMEWORK_VERSION) can't be guessed,
> and probably the source of Info.plist would also need to be passed).

It is far easier to do this with custom automake rules for your  
project than with libtool. Just generate the shared library as normal  
with libtool and at install time make the framework directory  
hierarchy and do any renaming necessary.

Also, you seem to be looking at libtool-1.5.x which is not where any  
new feature would be implemented, you should probably check out the  
libtool sources from cvs if you want to hack on them, however, I  
really don't think it a good idea.

Peter
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