If you want to change what your host application is dependent on, without having to rebuild it, you can use the install_name_tool app for changing this:<\/p>\n
This is pretty useful for cases where you might have a dynamic library located in a static location, but you want to bundle it with your application instead of having to use PackageMaker to install the library on the users local filesystem.<\/p>\n 2016-10-26 Update<\/strong> There is a good article that illustrates how to do this at dribin.org<\/a><\/p>\n And, if the library you are linking against does not use @rpath like …<\/p>\n Then you can change that long path to a @rpath using If you want to change what your host application is dependent on, without having to rebuild it, you can use the install_name_tool app for changing this: install_name_tool -change oldreference newreference appname install_name_tool -change \/usr\/lib\/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib @executable_path\/..\/Frameworks\/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib MySuperApp This is pretty useful for cases where you might have a dynamic library located in a static location, but … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[180,249,389],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-dylib","tag-install_name_tool","tag-rpath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaimerios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}install_name_tool -change oldreference newreference appname<\/code><\/p>\ninstall_name_tool -change \/usr\/lib\/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib @executable_path\/..\/Frameworks\/libItsAllAboutMe.dylib MySuperApp<\/code><\/p>\n
\nWhen I wrote this posting, I had not yet worked with @rpath, which is what you should be using in your Xcode project.<\/p>\n$otool -L libSomeWeakLookingLib.dylib
\nlibSomeWeakLookingLib.dylib:
\n\t\/Users\/weaklibnightly\/build_bot\/slave\/mac-64-trunk\/weaklibbuild\/bin\/libSomeWeakLookingLib.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
\n\t\/usr\/lib\/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5)
\n\t\/usr\/lib\/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1226.10.1)
\n\t\/usr\/lib\/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 120.1.0)<\/code><\/p>\n
\n$install_name_tool -id \/Users\/weaklibnightly\/build_bot\/slave\/mac-64-trunk\/weaklibbuild\/bin\/libSomeWeakLookingLib.dylib @rpath\/libSomeWeakLookingLib.dylib .\/libSomeWeakLookingLib.dylib <\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"