Helvetica28L;56L;84L;112L;140L;168L;196L;224L;252L;280L;308L;336L;What is the right file type for NSCreateObjectFileImageFromFile? What is the right combinations of ld options to use? Anybody have any examples that work for them? Where can I find documentation on NSCreateObjectFileImageFromFile? I searched all over the Apple developer web pages and all over the docs online with the developer tools on the public beta. Still no luck. Background: I am trying to get an extension to Python to link and load on Mac OS X public beta. I can get it to link OK producing a file named LTXMLintermodule.so But when python tries to load that thing in (dynload_next.c) it is doing a call to: rc = NSCreateObjectFileImageFromFile(pathname, &image); which returns a bad rc value: (gdb) print rc $1 = NSObjectFileImageInappropriateFile (gdb) print pathname $2 = 0xbfffd634 "/Apps/org/xml/ltxml/PyLTXML/LTXMLintermodule.so" Doing a hex dump of the file confirms that the executable file type is 1: od -xa XMLintermodule8.so | head -2 0000000 feed face 0000 0012 0000 0000 0000 0001 fe ed fa ce nul nul nul dc2 nul nul nul nul nul nul nul soh The last 4 bytes are the filetype. from loader.h: 062:00090 #define MH_OBJECT 0x1 /* relocatable object file */ 062:00091 #define MH_EXECUTE 0x2 /* demand paged executable file */ 062:00092 #define MH_FVMLIB 0x3 /* fixed VM shared library file */ 062:00093 #define MH_CORE 0x4 /* core file */ 062:00094 #define MH_PRELOAD 0x5 /* preloaded executable file */ 062:00095 #define MH_DYLIB 0x6 /* dynamicly bound shared library file*/ 062:00096 #define MH_DYLINKER 0x7 /* dynamic link editor */ 062:00097 #define MH_BUNDLE 0x8 /* dynamicly bound bundle file */ I have tried many combinations of ld options like -dyld, -bundle, -dylinker, -fvmlib, -preload Some of them give me unresolved references or other ld complaints. None of them will successfully load. Any clues? Geneva28L;56L;84L;112L;140L;168L;196L;224L;252L;280L;308L;336L;------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Burns email: 0000,0000,FFFFMichael.Burns@sas.com Principal Systems Developer home: 0000,0000,FFFFmburns@bga.com Metadata Integration Technology voice: (512)258-5171x3264 SAS Institute, Inc. fax: (512)258-3906 11920 Wilson Parke Ave. www: 0000,0000,FFFFhttp://www.realtime.net/~mburns Austin, TX 78726-4052 sww: 0000,0000,FFFFhttp://sww.sas.com/~sasmkb "choose for yourselves today whom you will serve;... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15