On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jay A. Kreibich <j...@kreibi.ch> wrote: > 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: >> >>> >>> 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
even though I know less about this than your average circuit board, I didn't even have to ever do the above... Just a simple 'make' creates all the .dylib files for me because all this is taken care of by the Makefile. What am I doing right? > > 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 > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
