[PD] Miller's pd 0.40 OSX loader

[james tittle]

On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, chris clepper wrote:
>> On 9/20/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>> Yes, on Mac OS X, the externals have to be built against a Pd that
>>> supports dlopen(), otherwise they won't work.
>> I think they just need to be built as dylib and not bundle.  I  
>> have not
>> tested 0.40 to confirm yet.
>
> What's the difference between dylib and bundle supposed to be?

...from apple's docs:

"A bundle is a directory in the file system that groups related  
resources together in one place. Applications, frameworks, and plug- 
ins are all examples of bundles."

"...One way to reduce the file size and memory footprint of  
applications is to reduce the amount of code that is loaded at  
application launch. Dynamic libraries address this need; they can be  
loaded either at application launch time or at runtime. Dynamic  
libraries provide a way for applications to load code when it’s  
actually needed."

...so conceptually, a bundle can be a dynamiclib, and much more, but  
a dynamiclib is closest to a "shared library" in the linux sense...

>
> How do I compile something as a dylib instead of a bundle? (I  
> rarely use OSX, but last time I tried I was on OSX 10.3 and/or 10.4  
> compiling libs with -bundle thinking that it's the equivalent of  
> Linux's -shared)

...did you see my previous emails in this thread?

jamie