[vtkusers] Interacting with VTK under Mac OS X

[Sean McBride]

On 3/16/07 10:44 AM, Mike Jackson said:

>With a library, you can do the same thing with the install_name. I  
>know frameworks are advocated by Apple, and I like them, but I  
>_think_ getting the install_name thing fixed may be easier. With the  
>framework approach you have to build the directory structure and all  
>that. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see this support in CMake,  
>but I'll take anything I can get.

Agreed.

>   The sad part is the hack that I did to set the install_name isn't  
>that difficult:
>I introduce a new variable for OS X: OSX_EMBEDDED_LIBRARY
>If this is set, then another option is presented to set the  
>install_name prefix (OSX_EMBEDDED_LIBRARY_FOLDER). The default is  
>"PlugIns" but the user can change this if they want to anything else.
>
>Here is the relevant part of the Darwin.cmake file that is in the  
>following location:

Well, that looks great.  Have you filed this in a bug?  It would be nice
if the choice between @executable_path and @loader_path was settable too.

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