[Xquartz-dev] Compatibility error problem in libpng15.15 when compiling on 10.8 and deploying on 10.9

[Stefano Borini]

On 1/15/14 2:58 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:52 AM, Stefano Borini wrote:
>>
>> A freshly installed copy of 10.8 has /usr/X11/lib, which contains
>> .dylibs for X, in addition to libpng and so on. It does not come
>> with a X11 server.
>
> Those libraries are bogus.

wow... sneaky. I would have never found out. Thanks.

> The important thing to understand is that libpng and libfreetype and
> the like are not "X11 libs".  They happen to have been installed with
> X11 because they were needed by X11.  If they are needed by your
> program, then they should be installed by/with your program in an
> analogous manner.

After this discussion, I managed to successfully run the application on 
the customer's computer. I did so by copying the libpng and libfreetype 
from XQuartz into the .app. Apparently, it is working, so I will most 
likely build my own versions without relying on XQuartz for the final 
deployment.

> There's a valid reason for it.

Ok. I guess I will explore a bit further and then start packaging these 
additional components as well.

Thank you all for the help, it was extremely useful.

Kind Regards

Stefano Borini