DMG install created with CPack for Qt5 crashes when run on OSX

[mkae]

I have built a DMG using cpack in an OSX 10.9.5 Parallels guest system
with the current MacPorts version of charm (aca5faf).

But when I copy this to my host system and run the application after finally
installing it I get a crash:

thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib          0x00007fff93962866 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff92cb335c pthread_kill + 92
2   libsystem_c.dylib               0x00007fff88a85b1a abort + 125
3   QtCore                          0x000000010c1fd109 qt_message_fatal(QtMsgType, QMessageLogContext const&, QString const&) + 9
4   QtCore                          0x000000010c1fe5b1 QMessageLogger::fatal(char const*, ...) const + 161
5   QtGui                           0x000000010cff9088 QGuiApplicationPrivate::createPlatformIntegration() + 5672
6   QtGui                           0x000000010cff90ab QGuiApplicationPrivate::createEventDispatcher() + 27
7   QtCore                          0x000000010c3afe01 QCoreApplication::init() + 113
8   QtCore                          0x000000010c3afd77 QCoreApplication::QCoreApplication(QCoreApplicationPrivate&) + 39
9   QtGui                           0x000000010cff680e QGuiApplication::QGuiApplication(QGuiApplicationPrivate&) + 14
10  QtWidgets                       0x000000010c71f82e QApplication::QApplication(int&, char**, int) + 206
11  com.kdab                        0x000000010c03c659 main + 537
12  libdyld.dylib                   0x00007fff87f415fd start + 1

The host system has no Qt5 installed, but runs qt4-mac from MacPorts instead.

Still, charm's application package contains all the needed libs, as I believe.

What can be done to diagnose this? Shall I send the complete crash log?

[mkae]

I reinstalled the version 1.8.0 from GitHub and get this error on the console:

$ /Applications/Charm.app/Contents/MacOS/Charm 
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "cocoa".

Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Abort trap: 6

Which seems to be of no surprise, as it is not in the app bundle:

$ find /Applications/Charm.app/Contents -name "*cocoa*"
$

[mkae]

Ah, ok, I see now that in principle all of these:

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtXml.framework/Versions/5/QtXml
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtSql.framework/Versions/5/QtSql
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5/QtPrintSupport
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtMacExtras.framework/Versions/5/QtMacExtras
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui
/opt/local/lib/libz.1.2.8.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libicui18n.54.1.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libicuuc.54.1.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libicudata.54.1.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libpcre16.0.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.0.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libglib-2.0.0.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libpng16.16.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqcocoa.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqdds.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqgif.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqicns.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqico.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libjpeg.9.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqmng.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqsvg.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqjp2.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libmng.1.dylib
/opt/local/lib/liblcms.1.0.19.dylib
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtSvg.framework/Versions/5/QtSvg
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqtga.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqtiff.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libtiff.5.dylib
/opt/local/lib/liblzma.5.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqwbmp.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqwebp.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/accessible/libqtaccessiblewidgets.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlite.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib

should get distributed in the tool’s package, if I don’t have Qt5 installed on the host system…

Well, I have in the app package this:

$ find .
.
./Frameworks
./Frameworks/QtCore.framework
./Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore
./Frameworks/QtGui.framework
./Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui
./Frameworks/QtMacExtras.framework
./Frameworks/QtMacExtras.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtMacExtras.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtMacExtras.framework/Versions/5/QtMacExtras
./Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework
./Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtNetwork.framework/Versions/5/QtNetwork
./Frameworks/QtPrintSupport.framework
./Frameworks/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5/QtPrintSupport
./Frameworks/QtSql.framework
./Frameworks/QtSql.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtSql.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtSql.framework/Versions/5/QtSql
./Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework
./Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets
./Frameworks/QtXml.framework
./Frameworks/QtXml.framework/Versions
./Frameworks/QtXml.framework/Versions/5
./Frameworks/QtXml.framework/Versions/5/QtXml
./Info.plist
./MacOS
./MacOS/Charm
./MacOS/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib
./MacOS/libglib-2.0.0.dylib
./MacOS/libgthread-2.0.0.dylib
./MacOS/libiconv.2.dylib
./MacOS/libicudata.54.dylib
./MacOS/libicui18n.54.dylib
./MacOS/libicuuc.54.dylib
./MacOS/libintl.8.dylib
./MacOS/libpcre16.0.dylib
./MacOS/libpng16.16.dylib
./MacOS/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
./MacOS/libz.1.dylib
./Resources
./Resources/Charm.icns
./Resources/qt.conf

which leaves me with these missing:

/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/platforms/libqcocoa.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqdds.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqgif.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqicns.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqico.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqjpeg.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libjpeg.9.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqmng.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqsvg.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqjp2.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libmng.1.dylib
/opt/local/lib/liblcms.1.0.19.dylib
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/QtSvg.framework/Versions/5/QtSvg
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqtga.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqtiff.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libtiff.5.dylib
/opt/local/lib/liblzma.5.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqwbmp.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/imageformats/libqwebp.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/accessible/libqtaccessiblewidgets.dylib
/opt/local/share/qt5/plugins/sqldrivers/libqsqlite.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib

OK, now it gets understandable why this wouldn’t work.

CPack needs to also ship these, right?

[frankosterfeld]

cpack via Macports-installed Qt isn't really tested/supported. I'd suspect that the macports Qt tries to load plugins etc. from /opt/local, no matter if those plugins are actually needed? lzma, tiff etc. aren't used in Charm so I don't see why Charm should bundle them. Could you try if you have the same issues with this DMG: http://www.kdab.com/~frank/Charm_pre1.9.0-ge1ae21c.dmg ?

[mkae]

Thanks, Frank, your DMG runs Charm indeed fine - at least as far as I can see.

I hope this helps you to diagnose how to avoid this also in a MacPorts-built Charm version.