macOS Linking dylibs correctly in OS X

[(KHC) Shadow]

Sorry about the title––I was having issues with some sort of firewall blocking me and there is no way I can find to change it...Title now fixed. Thanks admin.

I am having some issues with linking to dylibs. I have done quite a bit of reading on rpaths and linking, but I'm still running into errors. Here is the setup:

the Xcode project contains a group of dylibs, many of which rely on each other. The relevant xcode build phases are Copy Files (which copies all dylibs into the app Frameworks directory), Compile Sources, Link Binary with Libraries, and Run Script.

The script attempts to fix the rpath/link settings. After all files are copied and the executable is compiled and linked, the app directory looks like this:

example.app/Contents/Frameworks/<a bunch of dylibs>
example.app/Contents/MacOS/<executable>
example.app/Contents/<resources, the other typical stuff, etc...>

So far I have tried a few things. First I made all of the references in the executable to the dylibs

@executable_path/../Frameworks/<somelib>.dylib

In other words, running

otool -L <executable>

returns

@executable_path/../Frameworks/<lib1>.dylib
@executable_path/../Frameworks/<lib2>.dylib
@executable_path/../Frameworks/<lib3>.dylib
/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib

The dylibs in the frameworks directory were configured with the same path.

I also tried a different approach using rpaths such that the previous command would return

@rpath/Frameworks/<lib1>.dylib
@rpath/Frameworks/<lib2>.dylib
@rpath/Frameworks/<lib3>.dylib
/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib

and the rpath was set to

@loader_path/..

Again, the dylibs were configured the same way.

In both situations, I get errors such as

dyld: Library not loaded: path/<somelib>.dylib

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

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[(KHC) Shadow]

For some reason I got the same firewall error as before when I tried that.

Sucuri WebSite Firewall - CloudProxy - Access Denied
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[Intell]

That is the web firewall employed by MacRumors. The coding in your post is triggering it. Unfortunatly, there is no easy way around that.