Shipping a Self-Contained macOS App: How 24 Homebrew dylibs Broke My DeepSeek Harness Installer
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TL;DR — I wrapped an npm-distributed AI agent workbench into a double-click macOS installer. It worked on my machine, then quit instantly with zero logs on a clean Mac. otool -L revealed 24 dynamic libraries linked by absolute Homebrew paths. Fixing it meant copying every dylib into the app bundle,…
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- 2026-09-16 13:33 · DEV Community — AI
Shipping a Self-Contained macOS App: How 24 Homebrew dylibs Broke My DeepSeek Harness Installer