This is an Apple Umbrella Framework (Library) embedding all necessary open source libraries:

• libtool - Necessary part ltdl is licensed under LGPL 2.1
• libusb - licensed under LGPL 2.1
• libusb-compat - licensed under LGPL 2.1
• libjpeg-turbo - licensed by three compatible BSD-style open source licenses
• libgphoto2 - licensed under LGPL 2.1

This framework itself is released under the Lesser GPL 3.0.

Binary version of the framework are occasionally built and uploaded to

• binary releases

First, you need to clone the repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/lnxbil/GPhoto2.framework.git

Of course, you need XCode and you also need some other programs too. Best to install all of there using homebrew:

• automake
• autoconf
• wget
• nasm

Now, you can directly start the build process by running build.sh and you may need to fix some errors on the may, but they're indicated.

$ ./build.sh
Build Process of the GPhoto2.framework
https://github.com/lnxbil/GPhoto2.framework

+ Checking permissions on /Library/Frameworks/GPhoto2.framework
+ Download and extracting files
+ Start building at Fri Dec 23 19:05:16 MSK 2016 with 16 threads
  - Building libtool-2.4.6
  - Building pkg-config-0.29.1
  - Building libusb-1.0.21
  - Building libusb-compat-0.1-0.1.6-rc2
  - Building libjpeg-turbo-1.5.1
  - Building libgphoto2-libgphoto2-2_5_11-release
+ Finished building at Fri Dec 23 19:08:58 MSK 2016
+ Cleaning up framework directory
+ Linking headers
+ Building Apple Framework infrastructure

It is also possible to build the SVN version of libgphoto2, please set

GPHOTO="SVN"

in the config file, which automatically fetches or updates the local svn working copy.

A working example is provided in the example directory. You need to have the GPhoto2.framework to be installed in order to build the example with XCode:

If you want to build your own application, you need to use the -flat_namespace linker option in XCode: