unable to produce usable macOS app

[r-a-v-a-s]

I can compile and use QupZilla from Qt Creator; however, the app produced by macdeploy.sh crashes. I tried both the latest code and the v2.1.2 tag.

The seemingly relevant information from the crash log:

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libQupZilla.2.dylib           	0x0000000109591be4 MainApplication::isPrivate() const + 4
...
Binary Images:
       0x109544000 -        0x10954bffb +com.qupzilla.QupZilla (2.1.2) <6B630F57-E6EB-3EE0-9D3E-5BFC1D89D3E9> /Users/USER/*/QupZilla.app/Contents/MacOS/QupZilla
       0x109553000 -        0x10980cffb +libQupZilla.2.dylib (0) <971CE4A3-FD8E-3BDC-9D6C-C30AD872773A> /Users/USER/*/QupZilla.app/Contents/MacOS/libQupZilla.2.dylib

Qt 5.9 (brew) -- macOS 10.11.6

Steps:

1. build with Qt Creator
2. in terminal: ./macdeploy.sh /usr/local/Cellar/qt/5.9.0/bin/macdeployqt

[r-a-v-a-s]

I'm wondering why it looks for libQupZilla.2.dylib and not libQupZilla.2.1.2.dylib

[r-a-v-a-s]

When I run macdeploy.sh I get:

ERROR: no file at "/usr/lib/libQupZilla.2.dylib"

Am I supposed to copy it there? I don't remember having to do that before. Just copying the lib into the .app used to work (#1915).

[Martii]

When I run macdeploy.sh I get:

Run:

make bundle

... instead.

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macOS 10.11.6

OS X 10.12.5 is current too... been running that since it came out about a month afterwards (e.g. 10.12.x)

[r-a-v-a-s]

Same crash. Qt supports back to 10.10. http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/supported-platforms.html

[Martii]

Well, to my knowledge, I can't back out to an older version of OS X... but even at 10.11.x it was building successfully. :\ I do see an Xcode update that didn't come through my notifications... installing that now for Sierra... but I suspect that it will still compile. Because Qt is dependent on Xcode there could be some incompatibility/regression floating around for older OS X's.

As far as the Qupzilla dylibs there shouldn't be any extra with make distclean... at least on my Mac. I do recall a few times having to kill (rm) those last year sometime but it's how I was flipping back and forth with different git checkouts.

[r-a-v-a-s]

Same crash after the XCode update.

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000020
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

VM Regions Near 0x20:
--> 
    __TEXT                 000000010525a000-0000000105262000 [   32K] r-x/rwx SM=COW  /Users/USER/*/QupZilla.app/Contents/MacOS/QupZilla

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libQupZilla.2.dylib           	0x00000001052aa0d4 MainApplication::isPrivate() const + 4
1   libQupZilla.2.dylib           	0x00000001052c1d32 ProfileManager::connectDatabase() + 818
2   libQupZilla.2.dylib           	0x00000001052c1097 ProfileManager::initCurrentProfile(QString const&) + 263
3   libQupZilla.2.dylib           	0x00000001052a8c8e MainApplication::MainApplication(int&, char**) + 5470
4   com.qupzilla.QupZilla         	0x0000000105260a72 main + 1586
5   libdyld.dylib                 	0x00007fff906625ad start + 1

[Martii]

Well I think I'm at a loss... everything works here even on exec to OUJS. Maybe double check your PATH ordering to see if the developer OpenSSL you said you had installed first before brew is in the way?

[Martii]

Clean profile? e.g. rename QupZilla temporarily at ~/Library/Application Support/QupZilla and start fresh to see if it's a migration issue?

[Martii]

Qt 5.9 (brew)

Btw I'm using the Qt Unified Installer and not brews... it has has problems in brew.

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[r-a-v-a-s]

Yea, I was starting to think it was related to the brew version. I used the official version before, but wanted to try brew.

I see 5.9 is now 3.5gb 😲 I'll try it out when I move to macOS 11.12