Mac Forum / Programming / CodeWarrior / April 2005

Hi all!

I am developing a plug-in. Now I need to recompile it with Mach-O
(create a Mach-O bundle package). The plugin itself uses numerous
dylibs which come from other developers and they couldn't be changed to
frameworks and etc. The dylibs were compiled with install path
"@executable_path".

The plug-in is located in application plug-ins folder. Now the plug-in
couldn't be loaded because it searches for linked dylibs in the
"@executable_path" (the path of the executable of the host application)
and couldn't find them there.
Actually I don't want to put dylibs in the folder of the executable of
the host application.

My idea was to develop another plug-in which is loaded before my
plug-in and loads all required dylibs with NSAddImage method. But it
seems that this approach doesn't work - application still tries to
search "@executable_path"

Does anyone know what can be done in such situation?
Any suggestion or idea will be deeply appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,
Konstantin