Support @loader_path and @rpath

[ronaldoussoren]

Original report by Ronald Oussoren (Bitbucket: ronaldoussoren, GitHub: ronaldoussoren).

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Since at least OSX 10.5 dyld has supported the @loader_path and @rpath special prefixes for the installed name in library dependencies.

Macholib needs to support those in rewrites and while looking for libraries (macholib.dyld)

[ronaldoussoren]

Original comment by Anonymous.

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Hi Ronald,

Has there been any progress on this issue? Or is there a recommended workaround to switch the @executable_path references to @loader_path? I'm using py2app to build a plugin, which breaks when imported into Xcode since the @executable_path differs when referring to frameworks used by the plugin. I would very much appreciate support for this.

Thanks for your hard work on py2app!

Shravan

[ronaldoussoren]

Original comment by Ronald Oussoren (Bitbucket: ronaldoussoren, GitHub: ronaldoussoren).

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py2apps now mostly works with shared libraries that use @loader_path, this will be in the next release.

Changing py2app to use @loader_path instead of @executable_path would be a lot more work, this may or may not happen.