Ok, so I've gotten myself a copy of Xcode, and i'm totally unfamiliar with macs. (the only reason i'm dealing with them is for school. Are osx dynamic libraries extensionless? and what are the static libraries extensions? I'm totally at a loss for what to link with, i have a collection of NIB files. For our purposes i'll refer to sdl. i have a SDLmain.nib am i supposed to include that in my project? or what? I apologize i've been unable to find tutorials regarding sdl and osx (of course a general linking tutorial might be of use but i have no background and thus it would probably be hard anyways) any explanation on the file types would be nice thanks -Dan

Dynamic libraries have a .dylib extension, and static libraries have a .a extension. Additionally, MacOS uses different types of what are called bundles, which are basically folders containing different kinds of resources. Libraries for MacOS are distributed as Frameworks. They are bundles with a framework extension that contain executables, headers, and the shared/static library files.

When you download the SDL SDK, you should get a framework, which you place in /Library/Frameworks or ~/Library/Frameworks. You can then add it to the project in Xcode. When you are including header files, you include the name of the framework minus the extension in the path. For example, to include gl.h from OpenGL.framework, you would use #include &ltOpenGL/gl.h>

NIB files can be either bundles, binary serialized objects, or plaintext serialized objects.

[Edited by - igni ferroque on November 8, 2005 11:25:14 PM]