how to load framework library under Mac?

[jus]

Hi,

  I'm a Lazarus newbie and I want to us a framework/library which does not have a ".dynlib"-suffix, which is located in /library/printers/..
As I know *.dynlib files can be loaded with "loadlibrary", but in this case how can I load it and should I care about the directory?

Regards,
jus

[Phil]

Hi,

  I'm a Lazarus newbie and I want to us a framework/library which does not have a ".dynlib"-suffix, which is located in /library/printers/..
As I know *.dynlib files can be loaded with "loadlibrary", but in this case how can I load it and should I care about the directory?

What's the name of the framework? (.framework)

You can add something like this to your code to instruct the linker to add a dependency on a framework (in this case, SomeFramework.framework).

{$linkframework SomeFramework}

Alternatively, you can add switches to the Other panel of compiler options:

-k-framework -kSomeFramework

Or omit the -k and enter on the Linking panel in Pass Options to the Linker.

To see your app's framework dependencies:

otool -L myexec

Enter man ld for more information on linker switches.

Thanks.

-Phil

[jus]

Thanx Phil, but finally I gave up to use directly the external framework because of c++ class definitions.

jus