https://github.com/essandess/matryoshka-name-tool

A recursive call of OS X's install_name_tool for shared library distributions
https://github.com/essandess/matryoshka-name-tool

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A recursive call of OS X's install_name_tool for shared library distributions

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/essandess/matryoshka-name-tool
• Owner: essandess
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2015-11-02T05:15:49.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-11-04T02:19:25.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-18T21:18:44.234Z (about 2 years ago)
• Topics: linker, macos, objectmapper, shared-libraries
• Language: Python
• Size: 203 KB
• Stars: 15
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# matryoshka-name-tool

A recursive call of OS X's `install_name_tool` for shared library distributions.

## Synopsis

Apple [does not support](https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1118/_index.html) statically linked binaries on Mac OS X. Therefore, it is necessary to distribute shared libraries whose shared library install names have been changed using `install_name_tool`. But `install_name_tool` must be [applied recursively](http://thecourtsofchaos.com/2013/09/16/how-to-copy-and-relink-binaries-on-osx/) down the entire shared library dependency tree, which can [result](https://github.com/essandess/etv-comskip/) in many hundreds of calls to  `install_name_tool`.

`matryoshka_name_tool` calls `install_name_tool` automatically and creates a common shared library directory that may be used to distribute binaries on OS X.

## Usage

`python matryoshka_name_tool.py ./comskip ./comskip-gui`

`python matryoshka_name_tool.py -h`

```

usage: matryoshka_name_tool.py [-h] [-d INSTALL_LIBDIR] [-L LIBDIR] [-u]

                               OBJS [OBJS ...]

positional arguments:

  OBJS                  Object file[s]

optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  -d INSTALL_LIBDIR, --install-libdir INSTALL_LIBDIR

                        Shared library install directory

  -L LIBDIR, --libdir LIBDIR

                        Shared library source directory

  -u, --update          Update the install directory

```

## License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.