[Interest] Qt 5.4 missing /opt/lib/libzip.dylib on OS X

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Friday February 06 2015 13:12:32 Michael Jackson wrote:

> I am doing pretty vanilla C++ development. We use Qt as our base for everything. We generate a GUI for data analysis which gets distributed to users, *not* developers. Those users do not have MacPorts on their systems.

Evidently MacPorts isn't the most suitable choice in that case, and that's why I queried about the kind of development you're doing. 

> Every time I have tried MacPorts in order to get a redistributable product I have to bring most of the entire MacPorts system into the .app bundle including libc++ and libc which seems awfully fishy to me. Those are standard libraries that are on every OS X machine that is out there.

That's weird and shouldn't be necessary, but also a different topic.

> 
> NO. The _proper_ way is that Digia's package is updated and corrected. Why do _I_ have to fix their problems. And why aren't they building on a completely clean OS X machine that just has the necessary Apple supplied compilers?

OK:
> > That way you can use whatever bundling methods you use to bundle the Qt libraries with your products
< < until Digia fixes their installer

I take it you have filed a bug report about this? ;)

R.