[Interest] How to create a loadable bundle in OSX with qmake/qtcreator?

[Nuno Santos]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

In last resort I will use Xcode directly, but as I want to try to integrate a QML view inside the plugin window I thought that using QtCreator would also be useful.

I have found this:

http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/1119 <http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/1119>

I it is date from 2010 but I have tried and it doesn’t seem to provide any sort of effect:

macx:{
    # plugin necessary because otherwise compatibility
    # version parameters are added, which are not
    # supported with bundles
    CONFIG += plugin
    QMAKE_LFLAGS_PLUGIN -= -dynamiclib
    QMAKE_LFLAGS_PLUGIN += -bundle
}

I have also tried to take the TEMPLATE = lib out but it complains about the missing main function. 

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Regards,

Nuno

> On 01/11/2014, at 18:26, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday November 01 2014 17:12:08 Nuno Santos wrote:
> 
>> I’m trying to build a loadable lib module as a bundle with qmake/qtcreator. This loadable lib module is a VST plugin, a standard created by Steinberg for audio plugins, just like the audiounits from Apple. 
> 
> If all else fails, could you use CMake? AFAIK it does know how to create shared "modules", which is what you seem to be after.
> 
>> TEMPLATE = lib
>> CONFIG += lib_bundle
> 
> I think that creates a library-in-a-bundle AKA a framework. And that's what you seem to get ...
> 
>> And this is the content of an already existent vst plugin:
>> 
>> ./Contents
>> ./Contents/Info.plist
>> ./Contents/MacOS
>> ./Contents/MacOS/Dexed
>> ./Contents/PkgInfo
>> ./Contents/Resources
>> ./Contents/Resources/Dexed.rsrc
>> ./Contents/Resources/RecentFilesMenuTemplate.nib
>> 
>> The main difference, is that the lib file is located under Contents/MacOS just like an executable.
>> Does anyone know how to produce this kind of bundles with qmake/qtcreator?
> 
> Have you tried building as a bundle executable? You may have to add a/some linker flags to make the binary into a module rather than an executable (which would require a main function, etc).
> 
> R.
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