How to compile source that uses dylib path on macOS Sierra from the shell
dylib, g++, macos-sierra
Solution
In addition, you could also look into the `undefined` option of `ld`
Specifies how undefined symbols are to be treated. Options are: error, warning, suppress, or dynamic_lookup. The default is error.
That you would call like `-Wl,-undefined,dynamic_lookup` while compiling your binary.
You can also leverage `-lazy-lx` or `-lazy-library path` so that the library is not loaded until the first function in it is called, which might help in some cases.
Then add the rpath flag too, after having changed the name with `install_name_tool` like @macmoonshine showed, but make sure to point to the right path. By default Tulip is installed in the default library folder `/usr/local` but it's recommended in the install guide to do it in a user managed directory.
Something like the following command, for all the libraries required by tulip.
install_name_tool -change ./build-release/lib/libtulip-core-4.11.dylib '@rpath/libtulip-core-4.11.dylib' tutorial001
And also use `-Wl,-rpath,./build-release/lib` while compiling the tutorial.
Problem
I'm compiling some source code that requires some dylibs from other project that I have already built. I'm getting ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64` Whenever I execute ``` g++ some_code.cpp -I/usr/local/include -o executable_binary ``` I know that `g++` is not able to find the compiled the dylibs (installed at `/usr/local/include`) since the error also mentions a lot of specific symbols that are part of the dylibs. I have already tried this: - Executing `install_name_tool -id "@/usr/local/lib/requiredlib.dylib" /usr/local/lib/requiredlib.dylib` - Adding `-L/usr/local/lib` to the compilation options. - Adding all the dylib paths explicitly to the compilation options. - Try to add `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` unsuccessfully since Sierra doesn't allow to set that variable for security reasons. I know that it might possible to add `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` but that requires to disable SIP. I can do it by I do not want to if there is a cleaner way to do this. P.S.: I am trying to compile the tutorial examples for Tulip graph library. The missing symbols are related to the the graph library I have installed. The error message is: ``` Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "tlp::saveGraph(tlp::Graph*, std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char> > const&, tlp::PluginProgress*)", referenced from: _main in tutorial001-02ee7e.o "operator<<(std::__1::basic_ostream<char, std::__1::char_traits<char> >&, tlp::Graph const*)", referenced from: _main in tutorial001-02ee7e.o ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64 ``` Whenever I do `ls /usr/local/lib/requiredlib.dylib` the all the compiled libraries from Tulip are there. `g++ -v` produces: ``` Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin16.5.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin ``` After doing `ls /usr/local/include/tulip/` I get the list of `*.h` files of the libraries I intend to use.