OS X Externals

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Tue Oct 12 19:08:51 EDT 2004


On 10/12/04 4:44 PM, "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101 at fjrhome.net> 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, what happens when you say "put the externals of this stack"?
Anything?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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