FreeImage library not found - objective-c

Installed FreeImage through MacPorts. Everything looked to be OK, but when I builded my app and tried to launch on other computer where is no MacPorts and no FreeImage installed it says
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libfreeimage.3.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/development/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/freeimage-dxsornyaxqlkyubqwsrlkgszvxhy/Build/Products/Debug/freeimage.app/Contents/MacOS/freeimage
Reason: image not found
Shouldn't it copy library files together with my project? I added them to my project's build phases "Copy files" list. They are being copied to my app's bundle. But when I try to link them, I get same error. I don't know why but app is still looking for library in /opt/local/lib. How can I fix it so that I could use FreeImage at my project and run it at any computer?

When you install through MacPorts the library is installed in /opt/local/lib, not in your project path. Even if you copy the whole project, the *dylib libraries won't be copied because they are usually in /opt/local/lib.
I believe you have two options here: install FreeImage in every computer that you want to run your application, or copy the libfreeimage.3.dylib to the same folder where your binnary is and, if both systems are similar, that should work. If the two computers are different in terms of operating system version, hardware architecture, etc... then probably the .dylib that you have won't be compatible for the other computer.
Another thing you might want to consider is to modify your DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, which specifies the paths in which the OS will look for libraries when linking. See this answer for more information.

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Errors building PCL 1.8 with VTK-7.0.0

Trying to build PCL 1.8 using VTK 7.0.0. Target is Visual Studio 2015.
Using the VTK OpenGL2 backend I got errors similar to those reported here and here which indicate OpenGL2 is not supported for PCL yet.
However, using the original VTK OpenGL backend I get different errors:
The list of VTK libraries PCL projects link against includes libraries whose names suggest both OpenGL and OpenGL2, even though VTK is only configured with one or the other backend. For example, "vtkDomainsChemistryOpenGL2.lib" (when VTK backend is OpenGL).
"vtkDomainsChemistryOpenGL2.lib" does not exist, causing a linker error. However, a library called "vtkDomainsChemistryOpenGL2-7.0.lib" exists, so it appears a version suffix is added when VTK is built, but is not added when CMake generates the list of libraries to link PCL projects with.
vtkVertexBufferObject.cxx(104): error C2039: 'GetExtensionManager': is not a member of 'vtkOpenGLRenderWindow'. Class vtkOpenGLRenderWindow is suspiciously tagged with VTKRENDERINGOPENGL2_EXPORT (again in an OpenGL build).
I don't know whether the problem lies in VTK or PCL. The CMake build system is completely opaque to me so I am getting nowhere with this.
Just following up to myself (again)...
The problem was that, because I had initially built the "INSTALL" project of VTK using the OpenGL2 backend, then changed the backend to OpenGL and built the "INSTALL" project of VTK again, both backends existed in the install folder. VTKConfig.cmake (which PCL uses to link with VTK) finds and links against all modules that it finds in the install folder, thus attempting to link against both incompatible backends.
The VTK build system does not detect that conflicting modules are already present when installing, and the "make clean" or "rebuild" options don't remove conflicting modules (VTK does not have an uninstaller). Deleting CMake caches, or creating a new clean build directory, is not sufficient to clear up this mess.
So the only solution was to manually find and delete the VTK install folder ("C:\Program Files (x86)\VTK", for the record) if you need to change the VTK backend.

.app file not working in other MAC system

I have created a MAC application with libraries 'libmysqlclient.a' and 'libmysqlclient.18.dylib' with Objective-C language in Xcode 6.3.1 in OSX Yosemite 10.10.3. Its working fine when running through Xcode. And I also archived the .app file to install the app in my MAC, its also working fine. But when i tried to install it in another mac, app crashed and shows the message
"dyld: Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Users/developer/Documents/UntitledFolder/UserName/SampleApp.app/Contents/MacOS/SampleApp Reason: image not found".
From this message i understand that the particular MAC does not have “libmysqlclient.18.dylib”. So, here my question is "Is it mandatory that each MAC should have the library to install and run the application?". Can anyone give me the solution for this with detailed format of creating the .app file and installing it in other MAC systems.
Thanks in Advance.
You have included both a static (.a) and a dynamic (.dylib) library with your app. that do the same thing. A static library compiles into your program, making it larger. A dynamic library ships with your app. or is already install on your target system. If you ship it with your app., it should be in the Frameworks folder of your app. (you create this folder in Build Phases, Copy File). Use install_name_tool -id to set the library install name to #executable_path\..\Frameworks and also in Build Settings, set Runpath Search Paths to the same.

Qt5 exe not running in windows8

I have a qt application which was in qt4.7 and I ported it to qt5.0. It is working fine if it is run from a PC where qt5 is installed. But it is not running or not even giving any error message if it is run from a pc where qt is not installed even though it has all the dlls in the same folder.
But if I install qt and try from the same folder the application will work without even setting the environment variable. In some questions i have seen people replied about adding the dlls and i have tried adding all the dlls specified by them. But nothing helped. Any body has an idea how to handle this.
Qt 5 introduced the use of some DLLs that are loaded at run-time (as opposed to launch-time). These DLLs can only be detected by Dependency Walker if you use the "profiling" feature, which is not on by default.
I'm assuming that you're using the precompiled package from the Qt Project website. The community found a silent dependency on libEGL.dll, and a less-silent dependency on qwindows.dll, which must be placed relative to your .exe with this folder structure:
app.exe
libEGL.dll
platforms\qwindows.dll
Also, see if you can find anything useful at http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtdoc/deployment-windows.html
There is a bug report on bugreports.qt-project.org. It can help.

bundle dylib with application

I'm running Xcode 4.5 and MacOS 10.7.4 and trying to create a MacOS app for local distribution.
I have a dylib from a 3rd party USB hardware vendor. Rather than drop this into /usr/lib, I wanted to bundle this with the app. I have tried all of the methods mentioned here that I could find:
Creating a Cocoa Library target, and using a copy build phase, setting paths with #rpath and #executable_path and #loader_path ...
Here's what I ran into:
I can get the target app to build to compile and run if the dylib is copied into the same directory as the target app (by setting destination to "Products Directory"), however this only works while the app is running within Xcode. If I run the app from the finder it still looks for the dylib at /usr/lib.
A caveat when changing the destination setting: any files copied to a location in the previous build are not deleted when you make a change a build again. This tricked me into thinking a few times that I had a solution when I didn't.
"Library search paths" appears to work as expected when linking, but setting "Dynamic Library Install Name" and "Runpath search paths" don't appear to stop the code from looking in /usr/lib only at run time. They don't seem to have any effect at all.
So, why would setting those path variables have no effect, and how can I set the run time search path?

Linking to library

I installed ImageMagick through MacPorts. So all library files are in /opt/local/lib and headers in /opt/local/include/ImageMagick. It works OK on my mac. In xCode Build Settings - > Search Paths everything looks to be set OK.
Added library files to Linked Frameworks and Libraries
When I build my app it looks to be working. But when I try to run builded app on other computer where ImageMagick is not installed there comes this error message:
How can I fix it to make users to be able use my app without needing to additionally install ImageMagick and so on? How to link it that needed library files would come with my app (in project bundle)?
Af of now your linking library is referred from /opt/local/lib/ ---
Solution for your issue:
Make sure where ever app is installed suport library is installed to right location
Carry the dynamic library with app bundle and refere the dyld from the app bundle which will be relative to app bundle launch path.
Update: If you are looking for the second option --- With this option your library will be placed inside your app bundle ... so app can refer the library from the app bundle.
The precompiled dynamic library can be carried with the application -- in xCode --> Go to Build Phases for the target --> Build Phase (copy files) ... this will make sure your dynamic library is copied to into your app bundle ...
Update “install name” inside each dynamic library --- You can use 'otool' command to know present install path of your precompiled library and you can precompiled library install path using'install_name_tool' command in your terminal.
No support for it from ImageMagick forum, no support from StackOverflow, so I guess its impossible...