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Asked: 2026-06-04T11:22:12+00:00

Suppose I am going to use some library that is installable through autotools in

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Suppose I am going to use some library that is installable through autotools in my Cocoa application. Where should I “place” it? Should I run ./configure && make and then copy the .dynlib it to my Xcode project? Or is it better to execute ./configure && make && sudo make install and then configure my project to link to it? In the latter case, would the Xcode builder be smart enough to copy the library to the bundle?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I am not working with Mac OS X anymore. Anyway, I believe the preferred solution is either to link to the library statically or include the .dynlib in the bundle.

    (I tried to install the library using autotools (aka ./configure && make && sudo make install) and then add the parameters to the project configuration; the result was that my application did not work in any machine where the library was not installed.)

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