/Static-Libraries

A collection of various static libraries, already assembled

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Static libraries for Textual

How this works

source/buildLibraries.sh automates the building of libressl, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, and libotr for the Textual IRC Client. By default, the build is done in /tmp/static-library-build-results.

Other libraries and frameworks are obtained prebuilt or built manually.

Prebuilt:

Built manually:

Main Libraries

How to build

This repository contains prebuilt binaries; however, if you need to rebuild them, instructions follow. This assumes the arches being built are the default (x86_64 and arm64).

The ARCHES can be changed in the buildLibraries.sh script, in case other architectures are needed in the future.

  1. cd source
  2. ./buildLibraries.sh
  3. Ensure that /tmp/static-library-build-results/lib-static/universal contains the following files:
    • libcrypto.a
    • libgcrypt.a
    • libgpg-error.a
    • libotr.a
    • libssl.a
    • libtls.a
  4. Copy the above .a files into the Libraries directory in this repository, overwriting any existing libraries.

How to update library versions

Modify source/buildLibraries.sh to have the desired library version numbers. Note that this might break build and might require additional patches.

After building the libraries, the following additional steps must be taken:

  1. Verify that there are no critical differences between the headers for the different arches:

    diff -Nruw /tmp/static-library-build-results/includes/x86_64 /tmp/static-library-build-results/includes/arm64

    A slight difference in the comment header in gpgrt.h is expected.

  2. Delete the Headers/libotr and the Headers/openssl directories in this repository.

  3. Copy everything inside /tmp/static-library-build-results/includes/arm64/ into Headers in this repository.

  4. When completed, Headers should contain the following files:

    • gcrypt.h
    • gpg-error.h
    • gpgrt.h
    • tls.h

    And the following directories:

    • libasn1c
    • libmustache
    • libotr
    • openssl

  5. Delete the following directories within Documentation in this repository:

    • libgcrypt
    • libgpg-error
    • libotr
    • libssl

  6. Copy everything inside /tmp/static-library-build-results/licenses/arm64/ to Documentation.

  7. Build the Encryption Kit Xcode project and make corrections for any API changes in the libraries.

Other Libraries

For the prebuilt libraries, just download the latest releases and copy the frameworks into Libraries.

For the libraries built manually, instructions follow.

libasn1:

  1. Build Source/Apple Receipt ASN1c/asn1c.xcodeproj.
  2. Copy the libasn1c.a build product into Libraries.

Updating this library is somewhat complicated -- files need to be copied from the source package and the Xcode project needs to be modified appropriately.

GRMustache:

  1. Check out the source code from GitHub.
  2. Open src/GRMustache.xcodeproj, set the project to "GRMustache7-MacOS", and set build to "Any Mac".
  3. Go to Project Info and set the Deployment Target to macOS 10.12.
  4. Close the Xcode project.
  5. Open Terminal, cd to the directory for GRMustache, and run make lib/libGRMustache7-MacOS.a.
  6. Copy lib/libGRMustache7-MacOS.a to Source/GRMustache/Libraries/libmustache.a in this repo.
  7. If you are building a different version of GRMustache, you will need to copy over the headers to Source/GRMustache/Headers and ensure that there have been no substantial changes.
  8. Open Sources/GRMustache/GRMustache.xcodeproj in this repo.
  9. Build the GRMustache wrapper.
  10. Copy the GRMustache.framework build product to the Libraries directory in this repo.

Licensing

See the Documentation directory.