Up vote 31 down vote After reading the link that Justin provided, I was successfully able to use the @executablepath token to change my dylib installname to point to the same dir where my executable is located. @executablepath Absolute paths are annoying. If you have the need to consume a C Dylib in your Xamarin.iOS application, there is a bit of extra setup that is required before calling the DllImport attribute. For example, if we have an Animal.dylib with an AnimalVersion method that we will be calling in our application, we need to inform Xamarin.iOS of the location of the library before. Most DYLIB files are probably dynamic library files, but if you suspect that yours isn't and that it's instead used by a different program for a different purpose, try opening the file in a free text editor.If your specific DYLIB file isn't a dynamic library file, then being able to see the contents of the file as a text document may shed some light on the type of format the file is in, which.
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Hi,
I have a libfoo.dylib provided by a third party that I need to use in an iOS app. The dylib was used during development and this was not a problem, but now there need to be iTunes compatible app versions.
I create a foo framework project and add the headers for the dylib. I change the dylib install name path to @executable_path/Frameworks/foo.framework/foo, then I rename libfoo.dylib to foo and put that in the framework instead of the foo that was put there by xcode.
In my app project I add the framework to embedded binaries. The app builds but running throws this error:
App installation failed
This application's bundle identifier does not match its code signing identifier.
I can't find anything wrong with what this error is saying or anything relevant to it. I'm afraid I'm out of my depth here and I hope someone can help.
Thanks!
When you need to use a dynamic library in your product, you have to install the library in your computer. You may use dynamic libraries as dependent libraries (by specifying them in your product’s link line) or as runtime loaded libraries (by loading them when they are needed, using dlopen(3) OS X Developer Tools Manual Page).
This article describes the process of installing and using dynamic libraries. It’s based on the Ratings dynamic library and the StarMeals, StarMeals2, and Grades programs, which are included in this document’s companion-file package. This article also shows how to use dynamic libraries as dependent libraries or as runtime-loaded libraries. Finally, this article demonstrates how to interpose the functions exported by a dynamic library.
Installing Dependent Libraries
Before you can use a dynamic library as a dependent library, the library and its header files must be installed on your computer. The standard locations for header files are ~/include, /usr/local/include and /usr/include. The standard locations for dynamic libraries are ~/lib, /usr/local/lib, and /usr/lib.
You may also place the .dylib file at a nonstandard location in your file system, but you must add that location to one of these environment variables:
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For details on how to add paths to these environment variables, see Opening Dynamic Libraries. To learn about installing dependent libraries in a relocatable directory, see Run-Path Dependent Libraries.
If you don’t want to change the environment variables and you want to place the dynamic library in a nonstandard location, you must specify where in your file system you placed the library when you link your image. See the description of the compiler -dylib_file option in http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Darwin-Options.html#Darwin-Options for details.
For example, in OS X the executable code of apps can be packaged together with frameworks containing libraries created specifically for a particular app. These frameworks are known as private embedded frameworks. Applications that use private embedded frameworks, as well as the frameworks themselves, must be specially built. See “Creating a Framework” in Framework Programming Guide and “Loading Code at Runtime” in Mach-O Programming Topics for details.
Using Dependent Libraries requires that the Averages 1.1 and Ratings 1.1 dynamic libraries be installed on your computer. To install these libraries:
Open this document’s companion-file package.
In Terminal, execute these commands:
Note: To uninstall the libraries, execute these commands:
Using Dependent Libraries
Using dynamic libraries as dependent libraries by linking your image with them provides several benefits, including producing smaller executable files and not having to get the address of the libraries’ exported symbols before using them in your code. However, you still have to make sure a weakly imported symbol exists before using it.
All you need to do to use a dynamic library as a dependent library is include the library’s headers in your source code and link the library with your program or library. The library’s headers describe the symbols you can use. You should not use any other symbols to access the library’s functionality. Otherwise, you may get unexpected results, or your image may stop working for its users when they update the dependent library in their computers.
Listing 1 shows the source code of a small program that uses Ratings 1.1, developed in Creating Dynamic Libraries.
Listing 1 Using Ratings 1.1 as a dependent library
This list describes the highlighted lines:
Line 1: The
meanRatingfunction is guaranteed to exist in all versions oflibRating.A.dylib. Therefore, no existence test is required.Lines 2 and 3: The functions
medianRatingandfrequentRatingare available in Ratings 1.1 but not Ratings 1.0. Since StarMeals is to be backwards compatible with Ratings 1.0, it has to check for the existence of these functions before using them. Otherwise, StarMeals may crash.
To compile the StarMeals.c file, use the command shown in Listing 2.
Listing 2 Compiling and linking StarMeals
Notice that the exact location of the library StarMeals directly depends on (libRatings.dylib) is provided at the link line. The pathname <user_home>/lib/libRatings.dylib is actually a symbolic link to <user_home>/lib/libRatings.A.dylib. At link time, the static linker resolves the link and stores the library’s actual filename in the image it generates. With this approach, the dynamic linker always uses the library’s complete name when it looks for an image’s dependent libraries.
Listing 3 shows the output StarMeals produces when run in test mode:
Listing 3 Test output of the StarMeals program
Using Runtime-Loaded Libraries
An image that uses dynamic libraries as runtime-loaded libraries is smaller and loads faster than the image using the same libraries as dependent libraries. The static linker doesn’t add information about the runtime-loaded libraries to the image. And the dynamic loader doesn’t have to load the library’s dependent libraries when the image is loaded. However, this flexibility comes at a price. Before an image can use a dynamic library that is not one of its dependent libraries, it must load the library with dlopen(3) OS X Developer Tools Manual Page and get the address of each symbol it needs with dlsym(3) OS X Developer Tools Manual Page. The image must also call dlclose(3) OS X Developer Tools Manual Page when it’s done using the library.
The StarMeals2 program provides the same functionality that StarMeals provides. But StarMeals2 uses the Ratings 1.1 dynamic library as a runtime loaded library. Listing 4 shows the program’s source code.
Listing 4 Using Ratings 1.1 as a runtime-loaded library
Listing 5 shows to compile the StarMeals2 program.
Listing 5 Compiling and linking StarMeals2
The static linker doesn’t complain about the unresolved external references in libRatings.A.dylib because it’s not included at the link line. The dynamic linker resolves these references when StarMeals2 uses dlopen(3) OS X Developer Tools Manual Page to load libRatings.A.dylib.
Interposing Functions in Dependent Libraries
Sometimes you need to perform operations before or after a function is called to gather statistical data or to modify its inputs our outputs. For example, you may want to find out how many times a program calls a specific function to determine whether an algorithm should be optimized. However, you may not always have access to the function’s source code to make the modifications. Interposition is a mechanism through which you can define your own version of a function that’s defined in an image’s dependent libraries. In your version, you may or may not call the original function.
Note: In OS X you can interpose only dependent libraries. Symbols in runtime loaded libraries cannot be interposed.
To call an interposed function from a custom definition, you use the dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, '<function_name>') call to get the address of the “real” function. For example, Listing 6 shows how you may write a custom version of a function defined in a dynamic library.
Listing 6 Interposing a function
You may use interposition to adapt an existing dynamic library to your particular needs without changing its API. For example, this document’s companion package includes the implementations of two dynamic libraries called Ratings and RatingsAsGrades. The Ratings library implements a star-based rating system (it can be used to tally restaurant and hotel ratings; for example, *** and *****). The RatingsAsGrades library implements a letter-based grading system, which can be used to tally student grades; for example A and C. Instead of writing a new algorithm to manage letter grades, the RatingsAsGrades library leverages the functionality of the Ratings library. Listing 7 shows the interface and implementation of the RatingsAsGrades library.
Listing 7 RatingsAsGrades Interposing Ratings
Notice how the addRating, medianRating, and frequentRating functions, modify the input and output of the definitions they shadow.
The companion-files package includes the source code of the Grades program. This program uses the RatingsAsGrades library to tally the grades of students.
Follow these instructions to build and run the Grades program:
Open this document’s companion-files package.
In Terminal, perform these commands:
Listing 8 shows the output of the Grades program when ran in test mode.
Listing 8 Test output of the Grades program
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