Portable apps

[Michael]

On 2018-01-11, at 4:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> openssl provides libssl.1.0.0.dylib. The absolute path /opt/local/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib is baked into the lynx executable as a library that it needs in order to run. This is not special to lynx or openssl; this is how programs and libraries work on macOS.

How is it possible then to make a binary that can be distributed without that binary being dependent on specific machine configurations?

I'm specifically thinking of OBS. Trying to compile OBS from source code results in an executable that is approximately one tenth the size of the officially distributed one, that is not portable to other people's machines, unless every library is in the exact same spot (Homebrew vs macports, or in one case, one person's ~/lib.).

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