Is macdeployqt a shell script?

PSI_lbc

Anyone know? I cannot tell by looking at it in the /bin folder..or by hex dumping it.

Using the -verbose=4, macdeployqt output in Terminal shows references to "otool" which would seem to imply that it does some shell functions.

Shell scripts are plain text. Just open the file in a text editor and see if it's a shell script or not.

PSI_lbc

Did that already...opened with TextEdit on Mac. It has no extension but says it's a unix executable in finder. Garbled content except for the text strings. But it does not look like an executable..more like encrypted script.

The reason I ask is that if it is using or "shelling" other utilities like "otool" then will it run into permission issues like Automator running a shell script?

I'm seeing odd results from macdeployqt..specifically that when doing an "otool -L MyApp.app" prior to running it, the output does not change after running macdeployqt. None of the framework paths are changed..they all remain as

@rpath/QtWebKitWidgets.framework/Versions/5.602.3/QtWebKitWidgets (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.255.3)
@rpath/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5/QtPrintSupport (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@rpath/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@rpath/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@rpath/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@rpath/QtWebKit.framework/Versions/5.602.3/QtWebKit (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.255.3)
@rpath/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@rpath/QtXml.framework/Versions/5/QtXml (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)

Aren't they supposed to be changed to something like..

@executable/../../QtWebKitWidgets.framework/Versions/5.602.3/QtWebKitWidgets (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.255.3)
@executable/../../QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5/QtPrintSupport (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@executable/../../QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@executable/../../QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@executable/../../QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@executable/../../QtWebKit.framework/Versions/5.602.3/QtWebKit (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.255.3)
@executable/../../QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)
@executable/../../QtXml.framework/Versions/5/QtXml (compatibility version 5.8.0, current version 5.8.0)

SGaist

Hi,

macdeployqt is a command line tool not a shell script.

No they are not if the rpath contains the correct search list.

Run otool -l (lowercase L) on your application executable and search for the LC_RPATH entries.

Here is the source code: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qttools.git/tree/src/macdeployqt

PSI_lbc

@SGaist

Load command 28
          cmd LC_RPATH
      cmdsize 40
         path @loader_path/../Frameworks (offset 12)

Good to go?

SGaist

Yes, good to go.

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