[lucylawless]

Say I have some libraries that are in the form of header.h and library.lib (you can see them at http://download.microsoft.com/downlo..._PPC_Setup.hqx ), and in all likelihood they were created 2 years ago. Is it possible to use them to compile code for OS X? Are the .lib files tied to OS pre-X? I can get Hello World to compile with the headers included, but I can't call any functions from the headers. If I call function x, project builder and cc both give the linking error undefined symbol _x

is there any hope?

TIA

[Angus_D]

Unless the library is Carbon, you won't be able to use it. If it is Carbon, it is probably CFM, which means you'll have to either use a CFM binary or call the CFM API at runtime to use it.

[SoClose]

If you can compile the code on Mac OS X, using Project Builder/gcc or CodeWarrior, you may be able to use the CoreFoundation CFBundle APIs to call the functions within the code. You'll need to know all the function signatures beforehand though (functions names, parameters and return types).

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by SoClose:
If you can compile the code on Mac OS X, using Project Builder/gcc or CodeWarrior, you may be able to use the CoreFoundation CFBundle APIs to call the functions within the code. You'll need to know all the function signatures beforehand though (functions names, parameters and return types).

He doesn't have the code, it's a precompiled library.