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David Burson
David Burson

Reputation: 3197

build/install succeed, but at runtime: dyld image not found - why?

I had this problem with ICU in my app, trying to run in Qt Creator on my Mountain Lion MacBook Pro.

Now I discovered I have a similar problem at run time with a dmg that I build on this same MacBook Pro. The build completes successfully, running the dmg and installing appears successful, but when I try to run I get:

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/libicuuc.46.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/MapCreator.app/Contents/SharedLibraries/libicui18n.46.1.dylib
  Reason: image not found

I grabbed a previous tagged version of our app (and build script) from source control and I get the same problem when it's built on this MacBook.

The only errors I see when I run the build script are listed below. I believe these errors have always been present in our builds on all machines, and have never been a problem, but I list them here just in case it turns out to be helpful:

ERROR: "strip: can't map file: /Users/david/dev/svn/map_creator1.0.2/build/mac/pkg-root/Applications/MapCreator.app/Contents (Invalid argument)
" 
ERROR: "" 
ERROR: "install_name_tool: can't map file: /Users/david/dev/svn/map_creator1.0.2/build/mac/pkg-root/Applications/MapCreator.app/Contents/Frameworks//.. (Invalid argument)
" 
ERROR: "" 
ERROR: "otool: can't map file: /Users/david/dev/svn/map_creator1.0.2/build/mac/pkg-root/Applications/MapCreator.app/Contents/Frameworks//.. (Invalid argument)
" 
ERROR: no file at "/usr/lib/libicui18n.46.dylib" 
ERROR: no file at "/usr/lib/libicuuc.46.dylib" 
ERROR: no file at "/usr/lib/libicudata.46.dylib"

I'm not sure where to look to track this down. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 693

Answers (1)

David Burson
David Burson

Reputation: 3197

Apparently there is something different about the ICU install on my MacBook. The problem is solved by adding more install_name_tool -change lines to our script, to change where it's looking for dependencies for the ICU files in question.

The format is:

install_name_tool -change old new file

If the "old" path doesn't match, it just ignores the command. So simply adding the new lines covers the bases of various possible ICU installs.

Upvotes: 1

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