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
You might want to try Hopper Disassembler, osxdbg, Machoview, otx (otool GUI) and Affinic Debugger GUI.
There are two ways to create an app bundle on MacOSX, the Easy and the Ugly. The easy way is just to use XCode. Done. The problem is sometimes you can’t. In my case I’m building an app that builds other apps. I can’t assume the user has XCode installed. I’m also using MacPorts to … 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