Right now, the 80 externals link against a small set of source files that provide a lot of common functions. Most objects are indeed little more than wrappers around some of these functions.

Now we’re starting to think that packaging all these common functions into a nice framework could be a good idea – things would look much tidier and the size of the externals would significantly decrease.

Provided that I can actually manage to build the framework and make it work (I’m still struggling with Xcode, but the number of linker errors is slowly decreasing), I have some questions:

- Will the fact that the framework is dynamically linked cause any problems, or significant performance penalties?

- Are there any special caveats to keep in mind to be sure that things will work seamlessly on other people’s machines?

- Any other considerations, suggestions, … ?

Thank you very much!

aa

The biggest challenge with Frameworks/dylibs/dlls/etc. is what happens when someone wants to create a standalone application, a Max for Live device, etc.

If you install to /Library/Frameworks then all of these can find it. But then people expect a standalone to not have other steps for installing.

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Tim

thank you for the info! I’ve managed to make the framework, and everything looks so much better now…

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aa