So, since I started frequenting the AwkwardTV IRC channel, I’ve had to help a couple of people get their class-dumped headers for BackRow, iPhotoAccess, and QuartzComposer all sorted out in such a way that they can successfully build things. It becomes kinda tricky to explain after a while, so I though I’d do something useful about it. And so, without further ado, may I introduce: The BackRow Headers installer package!

Download it here

The package only installs the headers generated by class-dump, although in the BackRow case I have added a few things to them, mostly in the BREvent.h class (event types and definitions, mostly). And I’m not going to redistribute the frameworks themselves, so please don’t ask.

The installer will look for the BackRow and iPhotoAccess frameworks to be present already within /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks, and will not install if they are not found. It will place a PrivateHeaders folder at the root of each of those frameworks, and at the root of the QuartzComposer framework. It will then create symbolic links into the Mac OS X 10.4 Universal SDK — for the AppleTV frameworks it’ll symlink the whole thing, and for Quartz Composer it’ll just link the PrivateHeaders folder itself.

Bear in mind that while the headers will install on a PowerPC Mac, you can’t compile for PowerPC since the BackRow and iPhotoAccess frameworks are Intel-only.