Can plugins add libraries to unix vm?

[Bert Freudenberg]

External should be a lot easier to deal with. When building  
internally, the VM binary itself would have to be linked with the new  
frameworks. Not sure if the current build-infrastructure supports this.

- Bert -

Am 21.12.2005 um 18:36 schrieb Alan Sibley:

> I am building an internal plugin... I can switch to external,
> it would be nice for it to work either way. I will a) try external  
> and let you know
> and b) paste in the link command from the internal makefile.
>
> Thanks
> Alan
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 21, 2005, at 07:46AM, Bert Freudenberg  
> <bert at impara.de> wrote:
>
>> I am not sure why ar would be involved here ... can you post the
>> commands issued by make?
>>
>> This is an external module, right?
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>> Am 21.12.2005 um 16:18 schrieb Alan Sibley:
>>
>>> Hmmm... when I try that... "ar" complains mightily
>>>
>>> ar: -Wl,-framework: No such file or directory
>>> ar: -Wl,Cocoa:.....
>>>
>>> when vm-display-Quartz compiles and links... it doesn't look to be
>>> using ar.
>>> I'm not the "makefile jockey" to quite determine why that is :(
>>>
>>> Thanks for you patience...
>>>
>>> On Dec 21, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 21.12.2005 um 12:35 schrieb Alan Sibley:
>>>>
>>>>> Hey folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> We are working on a plugin using the unix VM for squeak under OSX
>>>>> Tiger.
>>>>> I'd like to have the resulting squeak VM link in some foundation
>>>>> stuff from OSX
>>>>> (CoreFoundation CoreServices...). Is there a way to trigger this
>>>>> using
>>>>> the Makefile.in stuff (tried altering XLDFLAGS, PLIBS, LIBS with
>>>>> no success).
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be nice to have this linkage only occur if adding in our
>>>>> plugin.
>>>>
>>>> Use the source, Luke:
>>>>
>>>> bert.vektor platforms/unix/vm-display-Quartz % cat Makefile.inc
>>>> XCPPFLAGS=      -I$(topdir)/platforms/Cross/plugins/
>>>> B3DAcceleratorPlugin \
>>>>                 -I$(topdir)/platforms/unix/plugins/
>>>> B3DAcceleratorPlugin \
>>>>                 -framework Cocoa -framework OpenGL
>>>>
>>>> PLIBS=          -Wl,-framework -Wl,Cocoa \
>>>>                 -Wl,-framework -Wl,OpenGL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -