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LKBEN11711: Ldd alternative on MacOS for looking at linked libraries.

Symptom

You need to check the dependency on libraries.

Cause

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Solution

There is no ldd command on MacOS. To look at the libraries you can use the otool.

#here an example
otool -L QtGuiTest.app/Contents/MacOS/QtGuiTest

QtGuiTest.app/Contents/MacOS/QtGuiTest:
	@rpath/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/A/QtWidgets (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.3.1)
	@rpath/QtGui.framework/Versions/A/QtGui (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.3.1)
	@rpath/QtCore.framework/Versions/A/QtCore (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.3.1)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/DiskArbitration.framework/Versions/A/DiskArbitration (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/IOKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 275.0.0)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/OpenGL (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Versions/A/AGL (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit (compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 2113.40.126)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
	/System/Library/Frameworks/Metal.framework/Versions/A/Metal (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 261.13.0)
	/usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1300.23.0)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1311.100.3)

Hope this helps.

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Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 25/04/2024