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2010
02.09

Leopard and (Sno) have a new way of specifying deployment location of a dynamic lib. Follow this link for an in depth explanation.

Examining view hierarchy at runtime


2009
09.01

If ever in need to examine a view hierarchy at runtime HTViewHierarchy is your friend. It is a superb reverse engineering tool. F-Script can be used to this end to a degree, but sometimes one just needs a hierarchy browser.

Modifying dynamic linker paths


2009
05.20

There times when standard locations for libraries and frameworks just don’t cut it. For such times a lineup of environment variables can be used to guide the linker. Typing

man dyld

in the terminal tells the story. Also

otool -L <executable-name>

lists library locations for a given executable.