Frameworks as opposed to Libraries under OSX

[sausage]

Hi Guys,

I help out with the Orx Portable Game Engine project, which supports multiple OSes and IDEs. A Codelite build is provided for all OSes.

We have noticed a problem with Codelite not supporting the -framework switch for MacOSX frameworks.

Our Codelite project has these options, for example:

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LinkOptions            :=  -dynamiclib -m32 -L/usr/lib32 -dead_strip 
Libs                   := $(LibrarySwitch)webpdecoder $(LibrarySwitch)liquidfun $(LibrarySwitch)Foundation.framework

In this example, there are some linker options, and the Libs contains both a mixture of Libraries and Frameworks.

Compiling the project will give a linker error:

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ld: library not found for -lFoundation.framework

Which is correct because there is no such library, but rather a framework.

Codelite can be made to work by bypassing it’s options, and feeding handwritten parameters to the compiler directly (using the linker options) with:

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LinkOptions            :=  -framework Foundation

..and removing the Foundation.framework from the specified Libs.

Is this possible in any way to get framework support in Codelite, or could it be supported in a future version?

[eranif]

Please submit a feature request

Thanks

[sausage]

Will do, thanks eranif.

[sausage]

Ref: https://github.com/eranif/codelite/issues/2027