On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:46:57AM -0400, D. Richard Hipp scratched on the wall:
>
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:43 AM, Jay A. Kreibich wrote:
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>>
>> I suppose this is mostly a question for the SQLite development team:
>>
>> I'm wondering why the dynamic libraries for the SQLite core and
>> TCL-SQLite bindings are not available for Mac OS X (.dylib), when
>> they are for Linux (.so) and Windows (.DLL).
>
> Because I do not know how to generate .dylib files.
That's a good reason... and one that hopefully can be fixed.
As I'm sure you know, .dylib files are the Mach-O (link format used
by OS X) equivalent of ELF .so files. The main difference is that
.dylib files have a bit more meta data and can contain multiple
architectures, so they need to be created with the right set of tools.
You can use "libtool -dynamic", just like most platforms, or "gcc
-dynamiclib" to do it directly from the compiler. This works well
enough with the amalgamation:
$ gcc -dynamiclib sqlite3.c -o libsqlite3.dylib
You can also embed version information and some meta info into the
.dylib file. If you have cross compilers installed, you can create a
.dylib file that has both Intel and PowerPC object code, although
that's becoming less and less important.
If you want to take this off-line, I'd be happy to help with more
specifics.
-j
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Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H >
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have
a protractor." "I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler
and a piece of string." --from Anathem by Neal Stephenson
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