[Qbs] "bundle.content" and libraries within app bundle

[Jake Petroules]

> On Jun 26, 2017, at 7:10 AM, Christian Kandeler <Christian.Kandeler at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 12:40:40 +0300
> Иван Комиссаров <abbapoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I want to install library products into the application bundle, like Qt Creator does.
>> 
>> I modified install-bundle example so the framework is installed into 
>> 
>> Here’s the example https://pastebin.com/dU3gxjQ4 <https://pastebin.com/dU3gxjQ4>
>> 
>> However, i get the following error when i try to launch app from Qt Creator:
>> 
>> Starting /Users/arch/Programming/qt5/build-install-bundle-Desktop_Qt_5_7_1_clang_64bit-Debug/qtc_Desktop__1f2d618d-debug/.tmp/Window...
>> dyld: Library not loaded: CoreUtils.framework/Versions/A/CoreUtils
>> Referenced from: /Users/arch/Programming/qt5/build-install-bundle-Desktop_Qt_5_7_1_clang_64bit-Debug/qtc_Desktop__1f2d618d-debug/.tmp/Window
>> Reason: image not found
>> 
>> Ok, i didn’t set the cpp.rpath property, however, why does QtC launches app from .tmp but not from install-root? Is this a bug?
> 
> Possibly. It appears your executable does not have qbs.install set for
> some reason. The logic for choosing the executable to run is in
> qbs::ProductData::targetExecutable(). Debugging into this function might give you more insight into what is going on.
> You might also want to check whether the same thing happens with the original install-bundle example.

Sorry. This is actually a bug by omission which broke somewhere during the refactoring of bundle handling in Qbs. Here's the patch which fixes bundled application running for macOS, iOS, and tvOS: https://codereview.qt-project.org/198542

Hopefully this will be part of the 1.8.1 release.

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