[off-topic] Using macports dylibs without macports

Pawel Veselov pawel.veselov at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 11:00:30 PDT 2009


Hi,

The best way to achieve what you want to do is to statically build
Cairo, and any libraries it depends on (except MacOS system libs, of
course), and statically link your application against those static
libraries.

Thanks,
  Pawel.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Travis Griggs <travisgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is likely a very naive question(s). I have an application (.app). It
> makes use of CairoGrahics library (libcairo.dylib) provided by Macports. I
> have some users though, who are not going to install macports on their
> systems just so they can use my app. Can I just copy the appropriate dylibs
> to location of the executable down in the bowels of the .app and have it
> work correctly? Is there a way to achieve what I want?


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