This world be great content for the wiki Hi Nate, This would be great content for the racket wiki https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki
You can post it yourself or I am happy to do it for you. https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/_new Kind regards, Stephen On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 17:54, Nate Griswold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I recently went through the process of embedding the Racket.framework in > Xcode, and i just wanted to share the steps in case anyone else would like > to do this. > > Note the documentation says ( > https://docs.racket-lang.org/inside/cs-embedding.html) > > "On Mac OS, besides "libracketcs.a" for static linking, a dynamic library > is provided by the "Racket" framework, which is typically installed in > "lib" sub-directory of the installation. Supply -framework Racket to gcc > when linking, along with -F and a path to the "lib" directory. At run > time, either "Racket.framework" must be moved to a location in the > standard framework search path, or your embedding executable must provide a > specific path to the framework (possibly an executable-relative path using > the Mach-O @executable_path prefix)." > > That sets the rpath search paths but the library binary still needs to > reference @rpath to make use of these search paths. Below we use > install_name_tool to fix up the binary to reference the @rpath directly. > > Note also that Xcode is hard coded to codesign in the Versions/A > subdirectory and hasn't added any support for signing other major versions, > so i link version A in the below steps. This step is only necessary if you > wish to sign the framework on copy. > > Note also for a proper framework structure, the framework should have an > Info.plist in Resources and a Versions/Current symlink. Top-level symlinks > directly in Racket.framework should reference only Versions/Current and > both Resources and the binary library (Racket) should be referenced. (see > https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFrameworks/Concepts/FrameworkAnatomy.html > ) > > Note also i did all of this with racket cs, you would have to modify the > steps if you were using normal racket. > > All that said, here are the steps: > > Drag the framework into xcode > select copy if needed, ok > Click on project, General tab, "Frameworks, Libraries, and Embeddeed > Content" > Change do not embed to either embed or embed and sign > cd to your copied framework in your project > cd Versions > ln -s 7.7_CS Current > if "embed and sign" was chosen: > ln -s 7.7_CS A (xcode is hard coded to sign the major version A, see > https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/65963) > cp /path/to/Info.plist 7.7_CS/Resources > cd .. > rm -f Racket > ln -s Versions/Current/Racket > ln -s Versions/Current/Resources > install_name_tool -id @rpath/Racket.framework/Versions/7.7_CS/Racket > ./Racket > otool -L Racket (to verify) > Switch to Xcode, build and run > > Nate > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAM-xLPpC3Ona-zbV6r43dD_xjSmXa_eGGRLfFERuQ_tBgG%3D4HQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAM-xLPpC3Ona-zbV6r43dD_xjSmXa_eGGRLfFERuQ_tBgG%3D4HQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ---- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAGHj7-%2Bv3nM%3D2X1V7YGrbToAi79GeAAE5cisN0KziLgrRjX9Ew%40mail.gmail.com.
