I have a cross platform project (Mac and Windows) which uses a helper app. Both the desktop and helper apps use the same fairly large library (DynaPDF). Any suggestions about the easiest way to minimize deployed file size by including the library only once? I’m planning to try a symbolic link or alias on Mac OS and a shortcut on Windows.
Will this work? Any better ideas?
Thanks…
In theory it should be possible, I don’t know about Windows. I’m hoping to add such a feature to App Wrapper in the future. On OS X I would recommend using relative symbolic links, these are easy to make and fairly resilient.
Aliases are now bookmarks and bookmarks are bloated files (sometimes a bookmark can be 1mb, just for a link to another file).
Thanks for the pointer, Wayne. Now that you’ve brought it up, I seem to remember reading that when it was posted (and then apparently forgetting about it).
It’s not clear to me from that article what the rules are about where the apps look for their libraries. Is it in any folder with “Libs” in its name with a preference for “appName Libs?” ?
If so, then the answer for my Windows build is straightforward.
And thank you, Sam. My thought was to try the symbolic link first. I’ll post back here once I try it out…
Make sure it’s a relative link, when you call the function pass in the relative path, otherwise you’ll end up with an application that’ll only work if it on your computer!
Right…
I made this mistake in the past when embedding QuickLook previews into document files, the moment a user renamed or moved the file, the preview disappeared! Oops!
No, it’s literally “Libs”. The 3 places it looks are
appName Libs
Libs
./
I don’t know what order it looks at them.
The easiest cross platform way to get to your Libs/Resources folder is with TPSpecialFolders. Sam has helped make the Mac side declare-accurate, and the Windows side will check for both AppName Libs and Libs in case you change the folder name 
Thanks to both of you Tims! Very helpful…