I'm having an issue with something.

I need to be able to locate a .vst bundle which will be in the standard Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/ directory. Using CFBundleCopyResourceURL with a NULL final parameter isn't finding it.

CFURLRef theVSTURL = CFBundleCopyResourceURL(aValidRef, CFSTR(SOME_VST_BUNDLE), CFSTR("vst"), NULL);

I'm using 10.7, and this API was working on 10.6. Has something changed?

I'm not as familiar as I would like to be with OSX, being a more Win-centric dev. I'm hoping there's some sort of PATH environmental variable. From digging around I find conflicting information about ~/.bash_profile, preferences.plist and a variety of others (including stuff for launchd) - some claim they don't work for GUI applications; there are a couple of posts on stack overflow which suggest that there is no unified PATH in 10.7.

Does anyone do anything similar? As part of installation routines are any of you writing to some PATH env-var?
I'm not keen to go changing every file I find just in case one of them works, I need to have something that is replicable for support purposes, so I'm looking to you chaps first

DSP

Under Lion the access rights became much stricter so the first thing I would check out here is if you even got the read permissions for that particular file/folder.

yeah, fair call. I had checked and updated as part of the build process had failed in copying the .vst there, so it does have read & write permissions

ufff...

solved it.. I must have misunderstood the API. I put the .vst in the Contents/Resources/ of the bundle and all was well..

thx those who looked