[Openexr-devel] Re: Problems building MacOS CodeWarrior version

[Jo Meder]

Hi Darrin,

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> which does not appear to contain the zlib source. A search on Google lists:
> 
> http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
> 
> as the first site in a search for zlib, for what it's worth.

That's where I got it too, although the Mac version is 1.1.3 as opposed
to the security bug fixed 1.1.4. I seem to remember making a project
etc. and building zlib was pretty straightforward. 

> It mentions in the docs that the Mach-O version can link against the
> zlib which comes with OS X. Why can't the CFM version link against
> it, too? (Is it a Mach-O library? I link against Mach-O stuff in CFM
> all the time.)

It is Mach-O. You can't link directly against a Mach-O framework/lib
from CFM, you have to do all that bundle finding, function pointer
loading business. There is some Apple sample code which does it more or
less automatically, but you can't just drop a Mach-O lib framework/lib
into a CFM project as far as I'm aware.

> So that's as far as I've gotten at this point. I've downloaded zlib
> 1.1.3, but haven't built it yet. I was just wondering if other people
> have run into these problems, or if I've set something up incorrectly?

I had some problems with access paths ( no big deal ), and once I'd got
zlib and compiled it ( which was painless ) everything just built
straight off.

Thanks a lot to those who sorted out the CW Mac projects. I tried
building the 1.0.4 distro without complete success.
 
> Also, would others be interested in having a MacOS CodeWarrior
> project which builds the Win32 version? If so, I might try putting
> one together once I figure out all the problems I'm having with the
> Mac version. It could theoretically even be combined into the MacOS
> project file, if you wanted.

I would be interested in that, in fact I was just about to have a crack
myself. I'm looking at adding OpenEXR support to the HDRI generation
plugin for my app, and that needs to run on both Mac OS 9/X and Windows.

Regards,

Jo Meder

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