standalone executable on Mac OS X (as independent as possible from user's system)

Hi:

I'm working on Mac OS X to get a standalone executable out of my swi-prolog
version ( SWI-Prolog version 6.4.1 for x86_64-darwin11.4.2).

My goal is to have that executable as independent from the particular Mac
installation of users as possible (so I cannot assume they have SWI-Prolog
installed, I can
also not assume they have XCode developer tools installed).

My executable was produced as follows:

swipl --goal="server(7000)" --stand_alone=true --foreign=save -o server_pl
-c server.pl

and swipl itself was configured to compile with "--disable-readline",
"--disable-shared", "--disable-gmp".

This got the dependencies nicely down to 2:

$ otool -L server_pl
server_pl:
    /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current
version 5.4.0)
    /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 159.1.0)

How can I get these particular dependencies out? I would be ok providing
them
in the same directory as I have server_pl (and that approach actually works
for
Windows and DLLs so that's great), but on my Mac I seem to be unable to
ensure that I can tell
the executable that the dependent libraries will be in a directory relative
to
that executable.

Note that things like install_name_tool (to replace libraries in
executables --
similar as chrpath on linux) results in:

$ install_name_tool -rpath /usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib
@executable_path/./libncurses.5.4.dylib server_pl
install_name_tool: the __LINKEDIT segment does not cover the end of the
file (can't be processed) in: server_pl

Other things I was thinking of is changing the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH but
server_pl
contains absolute paths to libncurses.5.6.dylib it seems.

Any pointers very welcome!!

Stijn

PS: I do not actually need ncurses I think as my executable is a server
without
need for terminal capabilities so if there is an option to compile prolog
without those (--disable-ncurses for configure does not seem to work), I'd
like
to hear about that too..
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