[QtCreator] Application cannot find Qt shared libraries on macOS

theodelrieu · wrote on 2 Mar 2021, 12:56

Hello! I'm trying to run my app in QtCreator 4.14.0, with Qt 5.15.2, on macOS BigSur (x64), but I have a @rpath problem:

13:32:19: Starting /Users/theo/Projects/build-prt-Desktop_Qt_5_15_2_clang_64bit-Debug/prt ...
dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/QtQuick.framework/Versions/5/QtQuick
  Referenced from: /Users/theo/Projects/build-prt-Desktop_Qt_5_15_2_clang_64bit-Debug/prt
  Reason: image not found
13:32:19: The program has unexpectedly finished.
13:32:19: The process was ended forcefully.
13:32:20: /Users/theo/Projects/build-prt-Desktop_Qt_5_15_2_clang_64bit-Debug/prt crashed.

I did try to remove RPATH handling in the CMakeLists.txt by setting set(CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH TRUE), with no success...

I've installed Qt and QtCreator with the online open-source installer, the root installation dir is at $HOME/Qt/5.15.2/, and all the frameworks are in $HOME/Qt/5.15.2/clang_64/lib.

I found some SO posts saying I needed to uncheck the Add build library search path to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH, which did not help.

I also tried to manually set up DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in the Projects -> Environment section, did not work either.

The app runs in the terminal when I set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH by hand, so there must be an option I'm missing in QtCreator.

Here's the result of otool -L:

@rpath/QtQuick.framework/Versions/5/QtQuick (compatibility version 5.15.0, current version 5.15.2)
	@rpath/QtQmlModels.framework/Versions/5/QtQmlModels (compatibility version 5.15.0, current version 5.15.2)
	@rpath/QtQml.framework/Versions/5/QtQml (compatibility version 5.15.0, current version 5.15.2)
	@rpath/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork (compatibility version 5.15.0, current version 5.15.2)
	@rpath/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (compatibility version 5.15.0, current version 5.15.2)
	@rpath/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore (compatibility version 5.15.0, current version 5.15.2)
	/usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 904.4.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1292.60.1)

Note that I do have install_name_tool and other Xcode command line tools installed.

Looking forward to your help!

Theo