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Re: Kext vs. bundles for libraries

G'day Dave,

To make a kext into a 'library' then you must add the property

OSBundleCompatibleVersion to your 'library' kext property list.

That tells the loader system that the kext exports APIs.

Then from you leaf kext you use the OSBundleLibraries. If you grep around in the plists for this you will find lots of examples of exactly this.

Good Luck.

Godfrey

At 19:32 -0500 03-1-31, Dave Hersey wrote:
Thanks Godfrey,

On 1/31/03 6:13 PM, "Godfrey van der Linden" <email@hidden> wrote:

A kext is incapable of refereing to a bundle. The two environments
are totally different. You appear to be asking for the ability of a
kernel extension to load a dylib into the kernel's address space.

Not allowed I'm afraid.

Actually, I originally did want to do what you mentioned, but I've since
realized that I can't do that. What I've been trying to do now is just
build a library that can be found, recognized, and loaded based on its
presence in a kext's OSBundleLibraries dictionary.

The OSBundleLibraries dictionary key is intended for exactly this
purpose and yes I know it is pretty clunky.

That's what I'm trying to use, but it appears that I'm building the library
wrong or putting it in the wrong place. Don't OSBundleLibraries live in
bundles? When my kext's OSBundleLibraries entries referred to other kexts,
everything hooked up. But, I'm having trouble building a non-kext library
that I can reference as a dependency via OSBundleLibraries. Is there a
description somewhere of what I need to do to make this work, or an example
that does this?

I know this has got to be a basic task, and I'm probably making it much more
confusing than it needs to be.

Thanks,

- Dave
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