The man page for install_name_tool says that -change is for dependencies. You’re trying to change the name of the library itself. Having just experimented, I found I couldn’t change the name of a dylib that appears inside the dylib itself but I could change the names of other dependencies. Having experimented more: install_name_tool -id newname … Read more
Apple has several ways of locating shared libraries: @executable_path : relative to the main executable @loader_path : relative to the referring binary @rpath : relative to any of a list of paths. @rpath is the most recent addition, introduced in OS X 10.5. If for instance you want to have your executable in Contents/MacOS and … Read more
Find all the boost libraries (where exefile is the name of your executable): $ otool -L exefile exefile: @executable_path/libboost_something.dylib (compatibility version 0.7.0, current version 0.7.0) /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 65.1.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 169.3.0) and for each libboost_xxx.dylib, do: $ install_name_tool -change @executable_path/libboost_something.dylib /opt/local/lib/libboost_something.dylib exefile and finally verify using otool … Read more