I’m John (the developer of nEXT (https://github.com/neXT-Browser/nEXT/),

I’m trying to produce a standalone binary. I managed to create a “.app” bundle of my application, and then I linked the libraries ecl and eql following this approach (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2809930/macdeployqt-and-third-party-libraries):

> install_name_tool -change libeql5.1.dylib @executable_path/../Frameworks/libeql5.1.dylib next.app/Contents/MacOS/next

> install_name_tool -change @libdir@/libecl.16.1.dylib @executable_path/../Frameworks/libecl.16.1.dylib next.app/Contents/MacOS/next

otool then reveals that everything was successful:

Anyways, long story short, I got the following terminal output when I try to launch my new app binary: