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[qt.qpa.plugin] Could not find the Qt platform plugin "cocoa" in ""

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    wrote on 22 Mar 2019, 21:12 last edited by
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    i'm trying to write my 1st qt program:

    // https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Beginners

    #include <QApplication>

    int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
    {

    for (char **env = envp; *env != 0; env++)
    {
    char *thisEnv = *env;
    printf("%s\n", thisEnv);
    }

    QApplication app (argc, argv);
    return app.exec();
    }

    —————————————————————————————

    i created the xcode project with cmake:

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)

    project( 01_minimal )
    set (CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
    find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS Core Widgets REQUIRED)
    add_executable( 01_minimal main.cpp )
    target_link_libraries(01_minimal Qt5::Widgets)

    —————————————————————————————

    i used brew to install qt:
    MacBookPro2018:1-minimal$ brew info qt
    qt: stable 5.12.2 (bottled), HEAD [keg-only]
    Cross-platform application and UI framework
    https://www.qt.io/
    /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/qt/5.12.0 (9,689 files, 318.9MB)
    Poured from bottle on 2019-02-06 at 10:17:14
    /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/qt/5.12.2 (9,661 files, 313MB)
    Poured from bottle on 2019-03-21 at 14:22:49
    From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/qt.rb
    ==> Dependencies
    Build: pkg-config ✔
    ==> Requirements
    Build: xcode ✔
    Required: macOS >= 10.12 ✔
    ==> Options
    --HEAD
    Install HEAD version
    ==> Caveats
    We agreed to the Qt open source license for you.
    If this is unacceptable you should uninstall.

    qt is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local/homebrew,
    because Qt 5 has CMake issues when linked.

    If you need to have qt first in your PATH run:
    echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

    For compilers to find qt you may need to set:
    export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib"
    export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/include"

    For pkg-config to find qt you may need to set:
    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib/pkgconfig"

    ==> Analytics
    install: 70,091 (30 days), 158,029 (90 days), 449,532 (365 days)
    install_on_request: 18,424 (30 days), 49,002 (90 days), 180,981 (365 days)
    build_error: 0 (30 days)

    —————————————————————————————

    xcode compiles it ok, but when i run it with either Xcode or from a script, i get an error, here is the script:

    #!/bin/bash
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib:/usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/qt/5.12.2/plugins/platforms/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
    export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib:/usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/qt/5.12.2/plugins/platforms/:${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}:
    ./Xcode/Debug/01_minimal

    —————————————————————————————

    here is the Xcode execution (with an edited environment list):

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib
    PATH=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
    PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib/pkgconfig
    DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib:/Users/xxx/Documents/C++/Qt/QtForBeginners/1-minimal/Xcode/Debug:/usr/lib/system/introspection
    DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/Users/xxx/Documents/C++/Qt/QtForBeginners/1-minimal/Xcode/Debug

    2019-03-22 11:28:14.080647-0700 01_minimal[7469:130177] [qt.qpa.plugin] Could not find the Qt platform plugin "cocoa" in ""

    —————————————————————————————

    i notice others had this problem & they were routinely asked to use otool:

    $ otool -L Xcode/Debug/01_minimal
    Xcode/Debug/01_minimal:
    /usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets (compatibility version 5.12.0, current version 5.12.2)
    /usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (compatibility version 5.12.0, current version 5.12.2)
    /usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore (compatibility version 5.12.0, current version 5.12.2)
    /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 400.9.4)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1252.200.5)

    and, sure enough, i am missing anything with the name cocoa

    —————————————————————————————

    i found libqcocoa.dylib:

    $ ls -al /usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/qt/5.12.2/plugins/platforms
    total 9944
    drwxr-xr-x 6 xxx staff 192 Mar 11 07:24 .
    drwxr-xr-x 29 xxx staff 928 Mar 11 07:24 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 xxx staff 1744876 Mar 21 14:22 libqcocoa.dylib
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 xxx staff 962164 Mar 21 14:22 libqminimal.dylib
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 xxx staff 980512 Mar 21 14:22 libqoffscreen.dylib
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 xxx staff 1400264 Mar 21 14:22 libqwebgl.dylib

    so i added the directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH & DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:

    DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib:/usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/qt/5.12.2/plugins/platforms:/Users/xxx/Documents/C++/Qt/QtForBeginners/1-minimal/Xcode/Debug:/usr/lib/system/introspection

    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/homebrew/opt/qt/lib:/usr/local/homebrew/Cellar/qt/5.12.2/plugins/platforms

    this didn’t help

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