Question

I’m trying to bind to BugSense’s lib but having a hard time trying to include the framework using -gcc_flags in the extra build arguments. BugSense provides a .framework and not a static .a lib. No amount of googling lead me to a solution to how to properly link the framework to my project.

So far I have something like this:

-v -v -v -gcc_flags "-framework ${ProjectDir}/../References/BugSense-iOS.framework"

I had copied the .framework folder to my References folder.

Building the project results in this mtouch error:

Error 1: mtouch failed with the following message:
/var/folders/XV/XVCgAKTfGEmAUQGlxdGm9E+++TU/-Tmp-/tmp36ed5372.tmp/main.m: In function 'main':
/var/folders/XV/XVCgAKTfGEmAUQGlxdGm9E+++TU/-Tmp-/tmp36ed5372.tmp/main.m:1838: warning: implicit declaration of function 'monotouch_enable_debug_tracking'
/var/folders/XV/XVCgAKTfGEmAUQGlxdGm9E+++TU/-Tmp-/tmp36ed5372.tmp/main.m:1921: warning: implicit declaration of function 'mini_get_debug_options'
/var/folders/XV/XVCgAKTfGEmAUQGlxdGm9E+++TU/-Tmp-/tmp36ed5372.tmp/main.m:1925: warning: implicit declaration of function 'mono_debugger_agent_parse_options'
/var/folders/XV/XVCgAKTfGEmAUQGlxdGm9E+++TU/-Tmp-/tmp36ed5372.tmp/main.m:2059: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
/var/folders/XV/XVCgAKTfGEmAUQGlxdGm9E+++TU/-Tmp-/tmp36ed5372.tmp/main.m:2059: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
ld: framework not found /Users/xxx/Projects/myProj/myProj/../References/BugSense-iOS.framework
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Answer 1

I believe its like libraries: you specify the name of the framework and then specify where to search.

-F <dir>
-framework <name>

So try this:

-gcc_flags "-F ${ProjectDir}/../References -framework BugSense-IOS"