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Asked: 2026-05-30T00:26:19+00:00

So I have this SFML 1.6 application that works well on Mac OS X

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So I have this SFML 1.6 application that works well on Mac OS X Lion. Currently the way I have it is that the SFML frameworks are in /Library/Frameworks and it works well, however to install on other machines it requires admin privileges. So I want to do one of the following:

  1. Be able to install the libraries in /User/idk/Library/Frameworks or similar

  2. Package the libraries and the app into a Mac disk image and have it reference the libraries from there

  3. Statically link the libraries

Now since the program is built using the Terminal with makefiles, I would prefer the solution to be in the Terminal rather than XCode, but if absolutely necessary then I guess I could somehow import the project to XCode.

So can anyone explain (precisely) how to do any of the three above, whichever is the easiest to do?

By the way I’m using the LLVM GCC 4.2 that ships with XCode 4.1 for the compilation.

EDIT:

How about someone tries the other two, aside from statically linking?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I solved it so… kind of a waste of bounty points… SUCKS FOR YOU! 😛

    I did something quite simple and was surprised no one else had suggested it:

    I used install_name_tool to change the names and dependencies of the SFML dynamic libraries so that they can be placed in the same directory as the executable, or in a special folder, but that’s relative to the executable’s directory. So it requires no admin privileges, and I easily packaged it all into an application bundle.

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