HowTo - Install ActiveDeveloper

The ActiveDeveloper Demo is setup in the download package so you DON'T have to install anything just to evaluate ActiveDeveloper. You can evaluate ActiveDeveloper directly from the download package folders.

After you register a copy of ActiveDeveloper and want to get to use it with your own Objective-C projects. Then it becomes time to copy the few files over from the download package.

  • 2 Applications
  • 1 static library
  • 1 IB palette
  • 1 header file in all your Activated projects

Installing the ActiveDeveloper files.

and copy the libActiveDeveloper.a from the Library folder to:

/usr/lib or /usr/local/lib

then, run the ranlib command on the libActiveDeveloper.a in it's new location to reset
it's internal date after your copy. (You do this from the Terminal.app).

ranlib libActiveDeveloper.a

finally, take a copy of ActiveDeveloperLib.h from the Development folder into all of your
own projects, that you want to compile and link with the ActiveDeveloper library


If, in addition, you also want to use the ActiveDeveloperIBPalette to explore and interact
with Interface Builder, then copy the ActiveDeveloperIBPalette from the Library folder to:


NOTICE: If you ever get ranlib linker warnings

After you have installed the ActiveDeveloper files onto your own computer and you start to link your own projects against the libActiveDeveloper.a. If you then see a ranlib warning like the following the first time you try to build against the libActiveDeveloper.a, or after someone else updated your computer to a newer version of ActiveDeveloper.

ld: table of contents for archive: libActiveDeveloper.a
is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)

This is not really an issue - but happens to a static library like libActiveDeveloper.a if it has been copied around after it's creation (like you do during the installation). Just re-run the ranlib command above

You should only see this once when you copy the libActiveDeveloper.a library around.
Just build again linking with the newly ranlib'ed copy of the library.


That's all - you are ready to script with Objective-C ...


We wish you - Good luck
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