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On 7-Jan-08, at 12:59 PM, Steve Mills wrote:

I have 2 frameworks that I'm building, one depends on the other. Framework A is a C++ Apple Event sender/receiver wrapper. Framework B contains some custom functions for a customer - it just sends some Apple Events to our app, and it builds those events with the API defined in framework A.

I found the "Creating a Framework" doc in the Framework Programming Guide. The section titled "Embedding a Private Framework in Your Application Bundle" explains how to embed a private framework into an app, but I need to first embed A into B. This is possible, yes? Step 2 says to "Set the value of the Installation Directory build setting to @executable_path/../Frameworks." Is "@executable_path" supposed to be typed as-is, or is it a documentation placeholder for "the path that your framework's executable is located at"?

In the project for A, I also have another target that's an application for testing the framework. I've done everything explained in the doc, and it seems to be working correctly. Project B also has a test app target for testing framework B. I've done the same thing to it so it knows how to copy and link against framework B. However, I get a bunch of link errors when building test app B (for clarity below, framework A is actually named MAAEL.framework, and framework B is named CCILib.Framework):

Building target “TestApp” of project “CCILib” with configuration “Debug” — (1 error)
cd "/depot/8.0.x/creatortech/desktop/mac/CCI Lib"
/Xcode2.5/usr/bin/g++-4.0 -o /depot/8.0.x/creatortech/desktop/mac/MAAEL/build/Debug/TestApp.app/Contents/MacOS/TestApp -L/depot/8.0.x/creatortech/desktop/mac/MAAEL/build/Debug -F/depot/8.0.x/creatortech/desktop/mac/MAAEL/build/Debug -filelist /depot/8.0.x/creatortech/desktop/mac/MAAEL/build/CCILib.build/Debug/TestApp.build/Objects-normal/i386/TestApp.LinkFileList -framework CoreFoundation -framework CCILib -framework Carbon -arch i386 -Wl,-Y,1455 -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -framework Carbon -isysroot /Xcode2.5/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
/Xcode2.5/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: warning can't open dynamic library: @executable_path/../Frameworks/MAAEL.framework/Versions/A/MAAEL referenced from: /depot/8.0.x/creatortech/desktop/mac/MAAEL/build/Debug/CCILib.framework/CCILib (checking for undefined symbols may be affected) (No such file or directory, errno = 2)
/Xcode2.5/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/ld: Undefined symbols:
HGetAndLock(char**) referenced from CCILib expected to be defined in @executable_path/../Frameworks/MAAEL.framework/Versions/A/MAAEL
HReset(char**, char)referenced from CCILib expected to be defined in @executable_path/../Frameworks/MAAEL.framework/Versions/A/MAAEL
fAEReceiver::GetDataType(unsigned long, unsigned long*, short)referenced from CCILib expected to be defined in @executable_path/../Frameworks/MAAEL.framework/Versions/A/MAAEL

etc...

This is what the built framework B looks like in Finder:

CCILib.framework
CCILib (link)
PkgInfo
Resources (link)
Versions
A
CCILib
Frameworks
MAAEL.framework (everything in here looks correct)
Resources
Current (link)

Note that the Headers folder is not being created, even though it has a Copy Headers build phase and the 1 .h file that should be copied is in that phase. I don't remember how I finally got this to work in framework A.

I'm very confused at this point, and having a cold doesn't help with my clarity. :(

Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
http://sjmills5.home.mchsi.com/

References:
	>Building framework with another framework (From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>)