tapi-stubify(1)

💅 tapi-stubify(1) — the TAPI Tool Documentation glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie. this is a page from the TAPI Tool Documentation, and it's literally about turning your library into a little text stub. sit down, hydrate, let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tapi-stubify — creates a text-based stub file from a library. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tapi stubify [--inline-private-frameworks] [-isysroot <directory>] [-o
<file>] [--help] <file>

tapi stubify [--inline-private-frameworks] [-isysroot <directory>]
[--help] <directory>

two shapes, one icon 💅 you're either feeding it a file or a directory, and it handles both.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the way that stubify works is it takes a dynamic library or framework and pops out a text-based stub file, .tbd — that's the whole main character move 🔥

when the input is a file 🎀 a text-based stub file gets generated right next to the input file, with the .tbd file extension — unless you used the -o option, in which case it goes wherever you told it to go. and if the conversion is not possible? the tool will abort with an error 😭 no half-finished nonsense, it just stops.

when the input is a directory 🦋 the directory is recursively searched for dynamic library files. all header directories are ignored during that search (yes, ignored, don't @ me). the stubbed files are placed next to the existing dynamic library files, like they're being tucked in 💜

and the existing symbolic link structure is mirrored for the newly created stub files — so your symlinks stay slaying exactly like before. periodt.

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --help — prints the list of options. that's it, that's the whole thing 🫶

🌈 more options, you say?

for info on the complete set of command line options, please use:

tapi stubify --help

iykyk 💅

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• tapi(1)
• ld(1)

go read those too bestie, they're giving supporting-character energy but they matter 🧚

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okay that's the tea 🍓 this page is from the TAPI Tool Documentation, and the version/date line at the bottom says Darwin and 2017-02-20 — so yes, this is a certified vintage classic 💀👑 love that for us. bye bestie, go stub some libs 💜🌸