On MacOS, I have a set of python
binaries I don't control (i.e. I can't build them with LDFLAGS='-undefined error'
).
On certain MacOS hosts/architectures (that is, some ARM Macs, but not all of them; some x86 Macs, but not all of them), doing certain things in Python fails with dyld[some_pid]: missing symbol called
.
How can I find out which library file is causing the issue, and which symbol, by name, is missing?
What I have tried
Using the below environment displays dyld
's diagnostic output:
DYLD_PRINT_LIBRARIES=1
DYLD_PRINT_APIS=1
DYLD_PRINT_WARNINGS=1
That causes the failed operations to emit what seem to be successful dyld
operations before the crash. But the diagnostic output isn't sufficient; for example, it often looks like this:
dyld[91757]: dyld_image_path_containing_address(0x10a7ab000) => '/path/to/python/lib/lib.macosx-10.15-x86_64-3.7/_csv.cpython-37m-darwin.so'
dyld[91757]: _dyld_is_memory_immutable(0x10a7ab000, 28) => 0
dyld[91757]: dlopen(_csv.cpython-37m-darwin.so) => 0x210fbb0c0
dyld[91757]: dlsym(0x210fbb0c0, "PyInit__csv")
dyld[91757]: dlsym("PyInit__csv") => 0x10a7abbc0
dyld[91757]: missing symbol called
In that example, nm
reports that _csv.cpython-37m-darwin.so
can resolve a symbol called PyInit__csv
. So it seems (I think) like the missing symbol called
error is failing on a different symbol, but I don't know how to determine which one that is.
dyld
to tell me what symbol it couldn't find, as that would save much of the debugging/diffing process, hence my question. – Essential