externals

Externals are often part of the LiveCode IDE and added to your standalones using the standalone builder settings. If your application uses custom externals that you would like to handle independently of the IDE then you can load them by creating a helper.

1. In the app/helpers folder create a folder named externals.
2. Place all of the externals required by your application in the externals folder.
3. Create a helper.yml file in the externals folder.
4. Configure the helper.yml file to load the externals.

Your folder structure should look something like this:

• 📂 app
  • 📂 helpers
    • 📂 externals
      • helper.yml
      • my_external.bundle
      • my_external.dll
      • my_external.so

The helper.yml file should look something like the example below. Note that the name property is the value from the external that appears in the externalPackages property when the external is loaded.

externals:
  macos:
    - filename: my_external.bundle
      name: my_external
  windows:
    - filename: my_external.dll
      name: my_external
  linux:
    - filename: my_external.so
      name: my_external

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