V4RB, what people think about switch to Macho ?

[Charles Yeomans]

On Aug 8, 2005, at 7:25 PM, jda wrote:

>> On Aug 8, 2005, at 5:00 PM, jda wrote:
>>
>>>> I seem to have difficulty compiling my projects using Macho ? 
>>>> Windows
>>>> icons and other issues seem to get mucked up. Consequently I'm still
>>>> using Carbon/PEF. Probably this has nothing to do with V4RB though.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just for the heck of it I compiled my RB app as MACHO. It quits 
>>> immediately on launch (on bounce or so) with no crash log. What else 
>>> do I need to do to get it to launch? I thought PEF shared libraries 
>>> work with MACHO. Must they be in the same bundle (i.e. not in 
>>> CFMSupport)?
>>>
>>
>> I'm using the current V4Rb plugin in a Mach-O application.  You might 
>> check the console log to see if there is some information. This is 
>> the sort of thing that happens when an external function declares to 
>> a nonexistent library.
>>
>
> Hm, I do have my own shared library. I have it in the same folder as 
> my app -> crash (with MACHO). I then opened the bundle and placed it 
> there -> crash. Maybe it has to go in a specific folder in the bundle? 
> Charles, do you use any third party plug-ins? If so, where do you put 
> them for a MACHO app?
>

Rb plugins compiled to PEF work with Mach-O applications.  This is not 
so for shared libraries, unless you use Rb2005 and soft declares.  And 
soft declares can only call into bundled libraries.

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Charles Yeomans