macdeployqt and poppler

[jsundermeyer]

I have been using macdeployqt fro some time to generate portabel osx apps.
We are using poppler which is installed in /usr/local/bin.
macdeployqt does not find the library unless there is a link in /usr/lib to it.
Unfornately osx inhibits setting links there in newer versions of osx, so how do I tell macdeployqt where to find the library ?
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored, setting DYLD_LIBRRAY_PATH break functionaliyt completely...

[SGaist]

Hi,

Which version of Qt are you using ?

[jsundermeyer]

I am using qt 5.7

[SGaist]

How did you install poppler ?

[jsundermeyer]

Self-compiled via cmake/make/make install to /usr/local/lib.

[SGaist]

What if you add -libpath=/usr/local/lib to your macdeployqt call ?

[jsundermeyer]

macdeployqt does not know the option -libpath or any other option which influence the lib search order.

[SGaist]

Then check that you are calling macdeployqt from your Qt 5.7 installation. macdeployqt -h shows you all the options from the application.

[ambershark]

@jsundermeyer macdeployqt has always been pretty weak. In every commercial application I've written for osx I've had to write some sort of bash script in order to make a deployable application. I gave up on macdeployqt long ago for exactly these types of issues.

You can just make a bash script that does what you need it to and it can find the correct libs for you. ;)

[jsundermeyer]

I was hoping since macdeployqt nearly manages to do it right, it might be tweaked a bit, before starting doing everything with a script of my own.

[jsundermeyer]

@SGaist neither qt documentation nor macdeployqt -h give any hints on how to give library search paths. Mind you, I have been using it for years.

[jsundermeyer]

indeed macdeployqt abc.app -libpath=/usr/local/lib works.
The issue was that the new option was introduced in qt 5.7.1 and I was still using 5.7.0.