[Interest] Use Oracle 11g with Qt5.1 on MacOS

[Emmanuel Bourgerie]

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> The preferred way would probably be to use relative paths and put
> the Oracle libs into your app bundle.

That makes more sense, I'll try the doc you gave me.

Thanks :)

Emmanuel Bourgerie
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On 13/11/2013 18:10, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
> Am 13.11.2013 um 15:53 schrieb Emmanuel Bourgerie
> <manu at bourgerie.fr <mailto:manu at bourgerie.fr>>:
> 
>> Turns out those libraries are available in my instantclient
>> folder, which is aliased correctly (DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH).
> 
> Ah, that reminds me: according to e.g. 
> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=956258
> 
> on OS X you do /not/ have a dynamic lookup of shared libs in the
> sense that a predefined order of paths is checked for the existence
> of a certain shared library.
> 
> The path of a given library is always [1] "hard-coded" into the 
> executable/dependent library - that's where the
> "install_name_tool" comes into play which lets you set both a
> "library identifier" for the library as well as the path to it in
> the dependent binaries.
> 
> Refer e.g. to
> 
> http://osiris.laya.com/coding/dylib_linking.html
> 
> Also the Qt docs themselves explain how to "deploy on Mac":
> 
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/deployment-mac.html
> 
> What that means: even if you have a library in /usr/lib/foo.dynlib
> with an "identifier" "foo.dylib" (can't remember what "identifiers"
> usually look like - refer to docs), but that path is not compiled
> into your executable (or the hard-coded path was something else
> like /usr/LOCAL/lib/foo.dynlib) then foo.dynlib /won't/ be found!
> 
> Note that the paths can (and usually are) be relative to each
> other. That's why you can move around application "bundles" and
> they still execute.
> 
> So if you *really* want to have your Oracle libs under
> /usr/lib/wherever *and* you are sure that they will be exactly
> placed at /this/ location on every Mac you intend to deploy your
> application, then you need to change that path in all your
> libraries (including Qt libs, in case they refer to it - e.g. the
> plugin!) and executables that refer to it! -> install_name_tool.
> 
> The preferred way would probably be to use relative paths and put
> the Oracle libs into your app bundle.
> 
> 
> Anyway, that's how I have it roughly in mind. Details might be
> different ;)
> 
> [1] It /might/ be possible to circumvent that "hard-coded library
> path" and use a more flexible/Unix-like lib resolution with some
> linker flags, which would then also honour LD_LIBRARY_PATH and Co -
> but not sure.
> 
> 
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