AlmostThere said:
For a specific app:
Targets -> Your Target -> Link binary With Executables -> Right Click -> Add ... -> Existing Files.
Navigate to the location of the library and click OK. Use Shift-Apple-G to open /usr and other Unix directories.
IIRC, you used to be able to drag and drop the .dylib files from Finder into the project, but I don't seem to be able to do this anymore (Xcode 2.2). The library will appear under groups and files, and can be dragged to whichever target requires it.
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[Edit: I guess this is what you are doing already. What is wrong with it?]
This is what I was doing, although I didn't know how to use the project browser as you indicated, I was just dragging and dropping. The main reason I don't like that approach is that my libraries then become linked, in a deletable way, to my project. It just doesn't seem smart (safe)
I did find that in the inspector under Build, you can add the gcc command line flags for libraries under the Other Linker Flags (ie: -llibraryname)
AlmostThere said:
It is also worth checking to see if there is a Framework that covers you library - this includes all the headers, libraries and other resources you need.
My programs are models, and I use various open source libraries for ODE solvers and thermo/chemistry models, so these aren't things that exist in frameworks, and in fact even where there is a framwork (ie: Framework accelerate replaces libblas.a) since after debugging I'll be running these files on a remote Unix-based machine, I prefer to keep everything as machine independent as possible. I just like to use XCode as a debugging environment.
Thanks though, I've been trying to figure this out for months and it just came right after I posted to the forum.
