[MacRuby-devel] BridgeSupport Requirement

Laurent Sansonetti lsansonetti at apple.com
Tue Feb 8 02:14:20 PST 2011


Yep it does.

But if you copy the BridgeSupport file under the "special" Resources/BridgeSupport directory of your .app bundle, you do not need to pass the full path nor use #load_bridge_support_file. You can just use #framework as before.

Laurent

On Feb 8, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Robert Payne wrote:

> If you specify a full path does Bridge Support behave this way? Such as
> 
> load_bridge_support_file NSBundle.mainBundle.pathForResource("MyFramework", ofType:"bridgesupport")
> 
> Robert
> 
> On 8/02/2011, at 10:50 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
> 
>> Hi Martin,
>> 
>> There is a way: if you copy the .bridgesupport files of your system inside your application's bundle, under the Resources/BridgeSupport directory, MacRuby should look at them in priority.
>> 
>> Examples:
>> 
>> 	Foo.app/Contents/Resources/BridgeSupport/Foundation.bridgesupport
>> 	Foo.app/Contents/Resources/BridgeSupport/AppKit.bridgesupport
>> 	etc.
>> 
>> I think we should add an option to macruby_deploy to automate this. Could you file a ticket?
>> 
>> Laurent
>> 
>> On Feb 8, 2011, at 1:07 AM, Martin Hawkins wrote:
>> 
>>> I installed BridgeSupport Preview 3 in order to resolve some issues
>>> related to errors looking up constant values. The new BridgeSupport
>>> worked fine and the application I have been working runs fine. I have
>>> 'embedded' MacRuby so that it can be distributed but here I come
>>> unstuck.
>>> 
>>> When run on a computer that does not have the BridgeSupport upgrade,
>>> it crashes; it seems that, while the app makes no reference to the
>>> MacRuby framework, it does need the new version of BridgeSupport in
>>> order to run.
>>> 
>>> This makes the notion of an embedding fragile - is there a way to
>>> embed the required BridgeSupport, or must I require that users upgrade
>>> their BrigeSupport before they install my app.?
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