Problem
I've recently upgraded my build environment to Xcode 6.1.1, running on OS X 10.9, and now I'm having trouble getting my application running again under OS X Leopard, 10.5.
For the target, Base SDK is set to OS X 10.6, and OS X Deployment Target is set to OS X 10.5. Inspecting the build logs shows that these settings are making their way through to the compilation and link phases (in the form of mmacosx-version-min=10.5
, export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
, etc.)
However, when I run the application under OS X 10.5, it crashes immediately with the error:
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: __ZNSt15basic_stringbufIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEE9showmanycEv
Referenced from: /[path]/[Application Name].app/Contents/MacOS/[Application Name]
Expected in: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
What I've Tried So Far
A bit of digging around shows that on OS X 10.9, /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
is a link to version 6.0.9, and on OS X 10.5 it's a link to version 6.0.4.
Other questions on SO suggest that the answer is to include a copy of the required version of libstdc++.6.dylib in the app bundle, and to point the dynamic linker to it using install_name_tool
.
So I run the command:
install_name_tool -change /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib @executable_path/libstdc++.6.dylib [Application Name].app/Contents/MacOS/[Application Name]
And otool -L [Application Name].app/Contents/MacOS/[Application Name]
now reports:
@executable_path/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.9.0)
I copy /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.0.9.dylib
to the location [Application Name].app/Contents/MacOS/libstdc++.6.dylib
and copy the application over onto the deployment machine and get...
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: __ZNSt15basic_stringbufIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEE9showmanycEv
Referenced from: /[path]/[Application Name].app/Contents/MacOS/[Application Name]
Expected in: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib
...exactly the same error message.
Running otool -L
on the application on the deployment machine confirms that the link to libstdc++.6.dylib
is still pointing to the path under @executable_path
that I set up with install_name_tool
.
So why is the dynamic linker ignoring the path set up by install_name_tool
and still looking in /usr/lib
?
Is this the correct solution for the problem?