Rebuilding Libraries

Of all the tasks one encounters when programming, building open source libraries is by far the least enjoyable. Mac OS X support isn't necessarily a primary concern of the maintainers and this usually means that whatever crappy makefile or project files are available are hopelessly out of date.

At least XCode generally allows you to just throw a bunch of source and frameworks at it and let it work, until you need to do something as remarkably common as bundle a framework with your app. You would think an application would be able to search it's own frameworks folder and the system frameworks folder to resolve dynamic libraries. But hey Mach-O is not my preferred executable format. zing!

So anyway. No screenshot for the day. Because building libraries sucks.