Re: Call CFM shlb from Cocoa
Re: Call CFM shlb from Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Call CFM shlb from Cocoa
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:40:14 +0100
On 30/9/03 3:34 pm, John Tsombakos <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hello-
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I have a shared library (.shlb) that I want to use, but I
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have no idea how to call the routines in the library from
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Cocoa. I've searched the list (and found one thread about
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calling shlb routines, but it didn't have any answers),
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and searched Apple's site but have come up empty.
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There is some same code at Apple, but it's about calling
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Mach-O routines from Carbon, but I want to go the other
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way. How do I load a shared library (.shlb) and call
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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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