<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 28, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Woodhouse, Gregory J. wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Assuming you're in the root directory, you might try</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">find . -name \*.dylib -print</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I see a number of naming conventions being used by Aqua application (all in a subdirectory of the .app folder), but there are quite a few libraries in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, too. I suppose it really depends on whether the library is meant to be used by a single appplication or framework, or whether it is a "standard" library any application might potentially use.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--------------------------</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Sent using BlackBerry</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Checking the developer documentation, I see that there are three environment variables that are checked when linking to dynamic library: LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLIB_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLIB_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It seems to me that there are three basic patterns</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1. Dynamic libraries packaged with an application</DIV><DIV>2. Dynamic libraries packaged as frameworks</DIV><DIV>3. Dynamic libraries meant for "ordinary" Unix applications</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and the location will vary a bit depending on which is being employed. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Gregory Woodhouse</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:gregory.woodhouse@sbcglobal.net">gregory.woodhouse@sbcglobal.net</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"Interaction is the mind-body problem</DIV><DIV>of computing." --Philip L. Wadler</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>