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Re: Link (dyld) error: image not found (QuickTime.framework)
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Re: Link (dyld) error: image not found (QuickTime.framework)


  • Subject: Re: Link (dyld) error: image not found (QuickTime.framework)
  • From: Eric Albert <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:51:10 -0800

On Dec 16, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Jonathan del Strother wrote:

I've had a couple of users send me crash reports like the one pasted below. Apparently my app loads fine, but later just bombs out complaining that it can't find Quicktime. They say that Quicktime player and everything else works fine - any suggestions what might cause this?

Command: CoverFlow
Path:    /Applications/CoverFlow.app/Contents/MacOS/CoverFlow
Parent:  WindowServer [64]

Link (dyld) error:

image not found /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/QuickTime

This is interesting. Typically applications link against the actual binary file inside each framework. For example, here's what QuickTime Player links against:


Ithilien:~> otool -L /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime\ Player | grep QuickTime
/Applications/QuickTime Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime Player:
/System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 11.0.0)


Note that it's "QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime". The path in your crash log is normally a symlink to the binary in Versions/A, but it isn't technically required. I wonder if it's missing on those users' systems. But what I'm more curious about is how you built an application in the first place which linked against the symlink version instead of the actual binary.

I'd suggest running otool -L against your binary and seeing which path you get. Assuming you get the path that you're seeing in the crash logs, I'd suggest looking at your build process and seeing how you link against QuickTime and whether you're running install_name_tool or anything like that on the build product to change your link paths. And you might want to take a look at the QuickTime framework on your build system (or in the SDK you're using) and make sure it has a symlink there rather than an actual binary.

Hope this helps,
Eric

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