On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Patrick Walton <pcwal...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 7/9/14 7:42 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> This seems like madness. No other programming language out there that >> I've seen requires developers to mangle these environment variables. >> > > Note that rpath never worked on Windows [1], so it could never be a > long-term solution. > Well, you could emulate it with runtime dynamic linking I guess, but my point is that this is a silly regression. Why hobble every platform just because of Windows? It's fine if you don't want to use @rpath, but you should at least use absolute paths to libraries on Mac, if not @executable_path or @loader_path. Windows will by default search the equivalent of @executable_path/.. if I'm reading [1] correctly. If you wanted a Mac solution that works in 100% of all cases the only solution is absolute paths because dyld will ignore environment variables, @executable_path, and @loader_path if the executable is restricted (setuid, etc.) [2]. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586%28VS.85%29.aspx#standard_search_order_for_desktop_applications [2] http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/dyld/dyld-239.4/src/dyld.cpp (see processRestricted, etc.)
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