OS X deployment problem (@rpath framework)

[tsouni]

Hi,

I'm trying to make OS X deployment of my desktop app. I have tried almost everything that I have found from google but none of the fixes seems to work. I'm using the os x deployment tool for sure.

The error what user gets when trying to start the app is:

"dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/5/QtOpenGL

Referenced from: /Volumes/:Users:jouni:koodaus:qt:gel build:gel/gel.app/Contents/MacOS/gel

Reason: image not found"

The .framework file is in the app bundle at Frameworks-directory (placed by the deployment tool). I can run the app from creator but if I try to run it directly (on my development machine) I get the same error.

Any ideas what should I try?

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

What version of Qt are you using ?

Can you also post your .pro file content ?

[xtingray]

I have exactly the same problem. This is my story:

Until Qt 5.3 I could compile and deploy my Qt app in Mac systems without any issue. My app had a set of plugins and a set of static libraries and the .dmg installer worked pretty well.

Now, since Qt 5.3 I started to get this compilation error from every one of my static libraries, specifically in OSX:

rm -f libtupiscenes.a
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib -s libtupiscenes.a
error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: cant open file: libtupiscenes.a (No such file or directory)
make[3]: *** [libtupiscenes.a] Error 1

So, I had to change my .pro files for the static libraries to become dynamic:
From this:

   CONFIG += staticlib warn_on

To this:

    CONFIG += dll warn_on

With this change, the compilation process was clean once again, even with Qt 5.8. Now, the deployment process is another story.

Here is my original deployment script:
https://github.com/xtingray/tupi/blob/master/tools/build_mac_osx_app.sh

Pay attention to the line 49 :

declare -a LIBS=('libtupigui.dylib' 'libtupistore.dylib' 'libtupi.dylib' \
'libtupibase.dylib' 'libtupinet.dylib' 'libtupifwgui.dylib' 'libtupifwcore.dylib'); 

Now, that I have additional dynamic libraries after the compilation, I had to edit my script like this to add the new dylib files:

declare -a LIBS=('libtupigui.dylib' 'libtupistore.dylib' 'libtupi.dylib' \
'libtupibase.dylib' 'libtupinet.dylib' 'libtupifwgui.dylib' 'libtupifwcore.dylib' 'libtupicolorpalette.1.dylib' 'libtupipaintarea.1.dylib' \
'libtupianimation.1.dylib' 'libtupipen.1.dylib' 'libtupihelp.1.dylib' 'libtupimport.1.dylib' 'libtupiexport.1.dylib' 'libtupiexposure.1.dylib' \
'libtupitimeline.1.dylib' 'libtupilibrary.1.dylib' 'libtupiscenes.1.dylib' 'libtupitwitter.1.dylib' 'libtupiplugincommon.1.dylib');

Supposedly, the deployment process finishes successfully but when I try either to run the .dmg installer or to run the binary from the terminal I got the same error message mentioned in this thread:

dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/5/QtOpenGL
Referenced from: /Volumes/:Users:me:qt:Tupi build:Tupi/Tupi.app/Contents/MacOS/Tupi
Reason: image not found

Now, this is the funny thing: If I set the variable DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH like this:

export DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/Users/me/Qt5.8.0/5.8/clang_64/lib

Then I can run the app from console, typing:

./Tupi.app/Contents/MacOS/Tupi

So, my question is: what I have to do or change to get my .dmg installer working as I did before with Qt 5.1?

Thanks!

P.S.: Looking inside of the .dmg package I built, I can see all the Qt libraries required by my app, including the QtOpenGL. So why the installer can't find them?

./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/QtOpenGL
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Resources
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/5
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/5/QtOpenGL
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/5/Resources
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/5/Resources/Info.plist
./Tupi.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/Current

[SGaist]

Qt Creator's rpath.pri shows a nice way to handle that.

[xtingray]

Thank you! Finally it worked for me, nevertheless I had to include the "Frameworks" path too:

QMAKE_LFLAGS += -Wl,-rpath,@loader_path/../,-rpath,@executable_path/../,-rpath,@executable_path/../Frameworks

I didn't have to do this before Qt 5.1.x versions, but it feels great to know how to fix it for newer versions. Thanks for the hint! :)