Re: [gentoo-osx] Gentoo-OSX and Mac system / frameworks

[Dirk Schönberger]

>> Something like a "Creating and using MacOS frameworks in 21 days"
>> type guide
>> would be nice, though ;)
>
> Straight from the horses mouth:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
> BPFrameworks/index.html
>

Thanks for the link. However, it seems to be rather Apple specific and not
really suited  specific for the things I want to do.
So perhaps I have to start from the basics and woork from there on.

I have an open source application (a game which depend on SDL, not in
Gentoo, yet).
I have a working libSDL, libSDL_ttf, libSDL_image aso from Gentoo-OSX,
installed into /usr prefix (/usr/lib, /usr/include)
The game compiles and runs fine if started from the console.
As a good Apple developer and user ;) I would like to create an
application folder
in order to be able to start the application from inside the finder,
without having to resort to the CLI.
I have managed a basic app folder, mostly by manually copying the
necessary files into the needed places. The game runs from the finder.

Next step would be to create a standalone application, suitable for
distribution.
This means including the used libs into the app folder structure.
If I check the actual executable with otool -L, I see that the exe is
still linked against /usr/lib/libSDL-X.Y.Z.dylib (including other libs and
system frameworks)

>From what I see, basically I have two choices.

a) copy the needed libs to a app folder local sub folder and do some hacks
with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. The actual starting program of my application is a
Unix shell script, so this could be even possible
b) learn to build frameworks from inside Gentoo, so that I can link
against the framework. I have the idea that I can distribute the framework
as part of my app folder and it is fetched automatically.

>From what I have seen in the link you gave, framework creation is done in
XCode / ProjectBuilder only. I did not found any example about how to do
this in a portage like environment (I found a DarwinPorts script for
creating a libSDL framework, but this uses .pbx scripts, too)

After a framework is created (which I think is the problematic part), I
assume that using the framework just is replacing a

gcc CFLAGS main.c -o main.o
gcc LFLAGS main main.o

with

CFLAGS=-I/usr/include
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib -lSDL

by a

CFLAGS=-framework SDL
LDFLAGS=-framework SDL

and for deployment just copy the files from the framework (or a subset
from them?) into my app folder?

Regards
Dirk


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