[Fribidi-discuss] Help with porting fribidi to Mac OS X

[Nir Soffer]

I did a make install to a temp directory. I need your help with the 
files:

./bin:
	fribidi* - 	this is the command line tool. Can It work standalone?
			can I deliver *only this file* with a GUI that uses it to end users?

	fribidi-config* - What that? --help does not really help :-)

./include:
	./include/fribidi:
		lot of header files... -	include files for projects using the library?
./lib:
	libfribidi.0.0.0.dylib* - dynamic library? how can I use it in my 
project?
	libfribidi.a   -  static library? how can I use it in my project?
	libfribidi.la* - libtool config file - why do we need libtool anyway?

./lib/pkgconfig:
	fribidi.pc - Whats that?


What I want to do with fribidi:
I want to create a tool for Mac OS X end users (read double clickable) 
to convert between visual Hebrew ISO-8859-8 and Windows-1255 or Unicode 
UTF-8 both ways, and maybe other fribidi tricks if needed later.

I have two options:
1. Tzafrir Cohen figured that I should use the library in my project. I 
will need help on how to include the library in my code. Code examples 
would be great.

2. I was planning to use the command line tool. It is easy and well 
documented to use Cocoa (read OpenStep) to run a command line tool, 
write and read data from it using pipes etc. I can also create a quick 
solution by using AppleScript  to run the command line tool.

What do you think is the right direction?