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How to include a library into externals?

Bruno Zamborlin — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:58:54 +0000

Dear all,
I’m just finished to write a simple Flac reader for MaxMSP.

However, I’m still not able to include a library ( libFLAC.8.0.1.dylib ) into it.
So I need to install the whole flac dmg library into any computer that wants to use my external…

Does somebody know how could I do it?

Thanks,
Bruno

Re: How to include a library into externals?

Wesley Smith — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:44:48 +0000

On OSX, you can put it in the conents/resources folder of the external
as long as you make it so your external can load the dylib from there
using otool or other methods. On Windows (which I don’t know as much
about), I believe you’ll have to put the dll in Max46/support.

wes

On Jan 2, 2008 6:58 AM, Bruno Zamborlin wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I’m just finished to write a simple Flac reader for MaxMSP.
>
> However, I’m still not able to include a library ( libFLAC.8.0.1.dylib ) into it.
> So I need to install the whole flac dmg library into any computer that wants to use my external…
>
> Does somebody know how could I do it?
>
> Thanks,
> Bruno
> –
> Bruno
>
> http://www.brunozamborlin.com
> http://www.myspace.com/brunozamborlin
>

Re: How to include a library into externals?

Bruno Zamborlin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:00:03 +0000

Thank you Wes for attention.
I already tried to put libraries into Contents/Resources and fix paths using otool and install_name_tool. However, it doesn’t want to work.

I’m beginning to think that Max copies the external in a place like “/tmp” or something before loading it.. but I’m not sure..
I’ll take time to check it more deeply
Thanks again

Quote: wesley.hoke@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 02 January 2008 17:44
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> On OSX, you can put it in the conents/resources folder of the external
> as long as you make it so your external can load the dylib from there
> using otool or other methods. On Windows (which I don’t know as much
> about), I believe you’ll have to put the dll in Max46/support.
>
> wes
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 6:58 AM, Bruno Zamborlin wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > I’m just finished to write a simple Flac reader for MaxMSP.
> >
> > However, I’m still not able to include a library ( libFLAC.8.0.1.dylib ) into it.
> > So I need to install the whole flac dmg library into any computer that wants to use my external…
> >
> > Does somebody know how could I do it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bruno
> > –
> > Bruno
> >
> > http://www.brunozamborlin.com
> > http://www.myspace.com/brunozamborlin
> >
>
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Re: How to include a library into externals?

Olaf Matthes — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:40:43 +0000

Bruno Zamborlin wrote:
> Thank you Wes for attention.
> I already tried to put libraries into Contents/Resources and fix paths using otool and install_name_tool. However, it doesn’t want to work.
>
> I’m beginning to think that Max copies the external in a place like “/tmp” or something before loading it.. but I’m not sure..

I usually put libraries in the same folder as my externals and use
relative link to them. Not as elegant as putting them inside the bundle
but it seems to work fine.

Olaf