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rainbowgoblin
rainbowgoblin

Reputation: 1281

Trace dylib loading on Mac OSX

I'm trying to build a Qt-based application on Mac OSX, and something in my application bundle is pulling in a Qt library from /Library rather than from the application bundle.

I've done this successfully in the past, so I know about using install_name_tool to link applications and libraries to the bundle versions of libraries. I've done this, but I must be missing something. I've tried setting DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES, but I'm not really sure how this helps: I can see which Qt library is being pulled in from /Library first (QtXml), but I don't know which file in the bundle is pulling in this library.

Is there some trick to tracing back which file is loading a particular library?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1495

Answers (1)

Anton
Anton

Reputation: 1223

Use otool utility to see what libraries are used by your app and where the app expects to find them:

otool -L yourApp.app/Contents/MacOS/yourApp

Upvotes: 1

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