[SOLVED] QTIFW installer crashes on Mac OSX

[echobravo]

Mac OS (10.10.3) Yoxemite for dev and testing
Qt 5.4.2 / QTIFW 2.0.1 (latest downloads for both)

Building an offline installer, which is based off the examples/tutorial.

Initially installer would not build complained of not finding lib installer.1.dylib
got that fixed, but the deployed installer crashes on my test Mac and complains for the same lib:
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: libinstaller.1.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/USER/Desktop/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer
Reason: image not found

After the installer built I really expected it to just work since there has been minimal customization done so far.

Thanks in advance!

While getting the installer to build I employed:

• otool to look at which libs were needed
• install_name_tool -change to update versions of libs used
• and made symbolic links to libs that were in a dir that was not expected...

Could this be another bug on Mac for the QTIFW?

[SGaist]

Hi,

What about using macdeployqt on your Installer.app, it should copy frameworks/libs/fix links for you.

[echobravo]

@SGaist seems "recursively" odd, but I'll try it
@SGaist u the man, that fixed it! TYVM
I had intuitively expected that making an installer would result in a binary that was ready for deployment...

[SGaist]

I agree with you. However, I haven't yet tested QtIF enough to determine if this could be considered a bug...