[Insight-developers] ITK factory, MacOSX, .so, .dylib

[Bill Hoffman]

Sebastien BARRE wrote:
> Hello ITK,
> 
> Quick question: was the factory mechanism on MacOSX fixed so that ITK 
> looks for .dylib instead of .so.
> 
> I see a few hacks in Slicer3 (which uses ITK 2.6) where IO plugin 
> libraries are built (i.e. as .dylib), then a POST_BUILD custom command 
> is added to copy it to the same library name, but with a .so extension, 
> so that ITK can load it at run-time. And then I realized the .so libs 
> are not even installed, so that's not helping :) Anyway, instead of 
> fixing the install rule for the .so, can you guys tell me if I can get 
> rid of the POST_BUILD command altogether and expect ITK 2.6 to load 
> .dylib fine?
> 

On older versions of MACOSX you could not load a .dylib.  This is a 
recent addition to MacOSX.  The .so is a loadable module on the Mac. 
So, I don't think you can get rid of it.

-Bill