FYI: missing libs for openocd on macOS 14.6.1: libftdi and libcapstone

[mchapman87501]

On macOS, openocd has runtime dependencies on libftdi and libcapstone. I needed to install them manually using brew install.

Before manual installation:

$ ls -lart ~/.pico-sdk/openocd/0.12.0+dev 
total 9320
drwxr-xr-x   3 my_username  staff       96 Sep  2 18:28 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 my_username  staff    76592 Sep  2 18:28 libhidapi.dylib
-r--r--r--   1 my_username  staff   179152 Sep  2 18:28 libusb-1.0.dylib
-rwxr-xr-x   1 my_username  staff  4511000 Sep  2 18:28 openocd
drwxr-xr-x  15 my_username  staff      480 Sep  2 18:28 scripts
lrwxr-xr-x   1 my_username  staff       59 Sep  2 18:28 openocd.exe -> /Users/my_username/.pico-sdk/openocd/0.12.0+dev/openocd
$ otool -L /Users/my_username/.pico-sdk/openocd/0.12.0+dev/openocd
/Users/my_username/.pico-sdk/openocd/0.12.0+dev/openocd:
    /opt/homebrew/opt/libftdi/lib/libftdi1.2.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.5.0)
    @loader_path/libusb-1.0.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0)
    @loader_path/libhidapi.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.14.0)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1345.100.2)
    /opt/homebrew/opt/capstone/lib/libcapstone.5.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.1)
$ ls -l /opt/homebrew/opt/libftdi/lib/libftdi1.2.dylib
ls: /opt/homebrew/opt/libftdi/lib/libftdi1.2.dylib: No such file or directory
$ ls -l /opt/homebrew/opt/capstone/lib/libcapstone.5.dylib
ls: /opt/homebrew/opt/capstone/lib/libcapstone.5.dylib: No such file or directory

[will-v-pi]

Could you try deleting your ~/.pico-sdk/openocd/ folder and reloading your window, which will download the latest OpenOCD which doesn’t have these runtime dependencies? Make sure you have the latest version of the extension first (0.16.1)

[mchapman87501]

That worked. Thank you!

Details:

• Deleted ~/.pico-sdk/openocd/
• Ran brew uninstall libftdi capstone for good measure
• Reloaded the window

otool -L on the new openocd showed the dependencies were gone. openocd ran without issue.

[will-v-pi]

Glad it’s working - closing this as done