LLVM-INSTALL-NAME-TOOL(1)

✨ LLVM-INSTALL-NAME-TOOL(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the LLVM manual set, and it's all about llvm-install-name-tool 💅 buckle up

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🎀 NAME 🎀

llvm-install-name-tool — the LLVM tool for messing with install-names and rpaths, no cap

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

llvm-install-name-tool [options] input

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, llvm-install-name-tool is a tool that manipulates dynamic shared library install names and rpaths that are listed inside a Mach-O binary. that's the whole vibe 💖

And for most scenarios?? it literally works as a drop-in replacement for Apple's install_name_tool. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

Real talk: you need at least one of these options, and some of them can be combined with the others. But here's the tea ☕ — -add_rpath, -delete_rpath, and -rpath can only be combined in a single invocation if they do not share the same <rpath> value. periodt.

• -add_rpath <rpath> — adds an rpath named <rpath> to the binary you specified. you can pass this multiple times to stack up multiple rpaths, slay ✨ but heads up: it throws an error if <rpath> is already listed in the binary 🙈
• -change <old_install_name> <new_install_name> — swaps an install name from <old_install_name> to <new_install_name> in the binary you specified. pass it multiple times to change a whole bunch of dependent shared library install names at once 💖 and ngl, this option is ignored if <old_install_name> isn't even listed in the binary you gave it. it's giving "no thoughts, head empty" 😭
• -delete_rpath <rpath> — deletes an rpath named <rpath> from the binary you specified. multiple times = multiple rpaths gone bye bye 🫶 but it throws an error if <rpath> isn't listed in the binary
• -delete_all_rpaths — deletes every single rpath from the binary. cleanse era 🌈
• --help, -h — prints a summary of the command line options 📜
• -id <name> — changes the shared library's identification name under LC_ID_DYLIB to <name> in the binary you specified. if you specify it multiple times, only the last -id option gets picked, sorry to the others 💀 and this option is ignored if the Mach-O binary you specified isn't a dynamic shared library. wrong binary, no service 🚫
• -rpath <old_rpath> <new_rpath> — changes an rpath named <old_rpath> to <new_rpath> in the binary you specified. multiple times = multiple rpaths changed 🔥 but it throws an error if <old_rpath> isn't listed in the binary, or if <new_rpath> is already listed in the binary. double trouble fr fr
• --version, -V — displays the version of the llvm-install-name-tool executable ⭐

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🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

llvm-install-name-tool exits with a non-zero exit code if there's an error. otherwise?? it exits with code 0 and we celebrate 🎉

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😭 BUGS 😭

to report bugs, please visit https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/labels/tools:llvm-objcopy/strip/ 🐛

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• llvm-objcopy(1) <llvm-objcopy.html>

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💜 Author 💜

Maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/).

🍓 Copyright 🍓

2003-2026, LLVM Project

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