OS X Externals

Thierry Arbellot thierry.arbellot at wanadoo.fr
Wed Oct 13 05:10:59 EDT 2004


On Tuesday, Oct 12, 2004, at 23:44 Europe/Paris, Frank D. Engel, Jr. 
wrote:

> I am trying to build an external for OS X (which I will eventually 
> need to get working under Windows as well).  There should be no 
> outside dependencies from the external itself, other than the standard 
> libc.  The external contains two functions.
>
> I tried various things, and finally ended up with a .bundle file, 
> courtesy of XCode.  I tried several different placements of the file, 
> and have the name of the bundle in the externals property of my main 
> stack, but using 'answer the externalFunctions of this stack' from the 
> msgbox always results in an empty message box (just the ever-present 
> OK button).
>
> I cannot tell if Rev is not finding my external, if my external was 
> not built correctly (found but considered corrupt and silently 
> ignored), or if it is somehow being considered an 'empty' external (a 
> valid external with no functions).
>
> Could anyone help me to debug this problem?  Thank you!
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>
>

Frank,

Have you set the full path to the bundle in the externals property of 
the main stack ?

Thierry



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