Reading data (embedded plist) linked to executable through -sectcreate __TEXT

Question

I am linking a executable with a plist using -sectcreate __TEXT linker flags. Reason for this is mainly to use the SMJobBless() method. But I need to read plist lin

Answer 1

There's a CoreFoundation function for that: CFBundleCopyInfoDictionaryForURL(). From the documentation:

For a directory URL, this is equivalent to CFBundleCopyInfoDictionaryInDirectory. For a plain file URL representing an unbundled application, this function will attempt to read an information dictionary either from the (__TEXT, __info_plist) section of the file (for a Mach-O file) or from a plst resource.

It's available on Mac OS X v10.2 and later. If you use in Cocoa you can do this (provided you have an (NSURL*)url for the bundle):

NSDictionary* infoPlist = [ (NSDictionary*) CFBundleCopyInfoDictionaryForURL( (CFURLRef) url ) autorelease];