I finally managed to compile my plugins for Mac too, but I couldn't test them.
Normally they should work, but I post them here before putting them on my website.

So can you test them and tell me if they are working?

Cheers,
kbarni

[edit:] I forgot to attach the plugins... so, here they are!

Many thanks for doing that!

Can you clarify where they should go on a Mac?

I've installed them into the Bibble package at:

/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/ for dylib files
and
/Resources/supportfiles/tools/Plugins for the UI files

The UIs show up in Bibble, but the plugins don't seem to actually do anything. Are they supposed to go somewhere else?

check bibbledebug if they get loaded

18654.779: Loading plugins
18654.885: Problems resolving runCheck pointer for "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/SallyPro.dylib"
18654.885: Plugin failed to load properly "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/SallyPro.dylib"
18654.886: Problems resolving runCheck pointer for "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/Lay.dylib"
18654.886: Plugin failed to load properly "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/Lay.dylib"
18654.887: Problems resolving runCheck pointer for "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/Inda.dylib"
18654.888: Plugin failed to load properly "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/Inda.dylib"
18654.888: Problems resolving runCheck pointer for "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/Harry.dylib"
18654.889: Plugin failed to load properly "/Applications/bibblepro.app/Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins/Harry.dylib"

18654.732: Bibble vers.: 5.0
18654.733: Built on: "Mon Dec 28 2009"
18654.734: Language: en
18654.735: Platform: Mac
18654.735: Build Mode: Release

Mac OS X 10.6.2

so it seems they need to be rebuilt

My friend who compiled the plugins said, there are differences between Leopard and Snow Leopard, even in compilation.
I don't know if this affects the compilation process, too (The plugins are compiled under Snow Leopard).
I don't have any idea why the pointer for the RunCheck function isn't found...(I swear it's in the source code )

There shouldn't be any problems building on 10.5 or 10.6 (we do both here). However, you must be sure that the build settings match the ones that we use. There are Xcode projects included in the SDK for some of the examples and I'd recommend using those as a basis for your own Mac projects (i.e. don't use gcc from the command line). In particular probably the most important settings would be the following:

Use the 10.4u SDK.
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.4
GCC_VERSION = 4.0

If you compile from the command line then you'd have to figure out how to set all of those manually. The Xcode example projects are already properly configured.

i've compiled the plugins from the command line using gcc without any tweaking and it worked
i was probably lucky

Well, if you didn't set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET then the plugins may not run on older versions of Mac OS X - ex: If you complied on 10.6 then it might not run on 10.5 (it probably will run, but there's no guarantee).
If you used gcc 4.2 (command line default), instead of 4.0 then the plugins will not run at all on Mac OS X 10.4.
Setting the SDK isn't quite as important but just ensures (at compile time) that you're not using any functions that might be available in 10.5 or 10.6 but are unavailable in 10.4.

interesting, thanks

I used an old Makefile (from this summer's SDK), without these settings.
(I attach the Makefile for Harry).

Could you write me a newer makefile?

Unfortunately I don't know much about the Macs and can't really experiment with them, neither.

I have Snow on an iMac. Installed these plugins as per Bibble instructions. Nothing happens


patrickh

Mac OSX Installation:
1. Close Bibble 5 Pro.
2. Right-click on bibblepro application in the Finder and select "Show Package Contents".
3. Copy the *.dylib file into Contents/Resources/supportfiles/plugins
4. Copy the *.ui file into Contents/Resources/supportfiles/tools/Plugins

fwiw, I tried building kbarni Inda plugin with XCode with the tips from Dave above. i just copied the Invert plugin folder and changed everything to Inda, adding the necessary files etc. From what I can see, the setting (10.4 target, GCC4) is fine but:

Since I'm not familiar with it, I probably forgot something because when the plugin is loaded it says:


in the bibbledebugfile.txt

Makefiles were so much easier - any hints? (or maybe kbarni can take it further from here?)

wrong version of sdk