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Re: Call CFM shlb from Cocoa

On 30/9/03 3:34 pm, John Tsombakos <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I have a shared library (.shlb) that I want to use, but I
> have no idea how to call the routines in the library from
> Cocoa. I've searched the list (and found one thread about
> calling shlb routines, but it didn't have any answers),
> and searched Apple's site but have come up empty.
>
> There is some same code at Apple, but it's about calling
> Mach-O routines from Carbon, but I want to go the other
> way. How do I load a shared library (.shlb) and call
> Carbon (CFM) routines from a Cocoa app?

Use CFBundleLoadExecutable() to load the shared library (which has to be
structured as a bundle, presumably stored inside your app wrapper), and then
extract pointers to the functions inside the library using
CFBundleGetFunctionPointerForName().

Cheers,

Chris
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