Problem installing r38 on Mac w/10.14.5

EMwhite · Post by **EMwhite** » Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:19 pm

I admit it, I'm not awesome at keeping up to date w/MacOS releases. Part of this is due to my using this machine for connectivity to work via Citrix and our company having specific standards but that's another set of issues and problems.

Specifically, I just grabbed r38 and upon installing, got the following:

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dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _objc_opt_respondsToSelector

Referenced from: /Users/mwhyt/Downloads/x16emu_mac-r38/x16emu (which was built for Mac OS X 10.15)

Expected in: /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib

dyld: Symbol not found: _objc_opt_respondsToSelector

Referenced from: /Users/mwhyt/Downloads/x16emu_mac-r38/x16emu (which was built for Mac OS X 10.15)

Expected in: /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib

Abort trap: 6

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Yet, R37 worked just fine. Do I really need 10.15 in order to get r38 to work properly?

Thank you.

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StephenHorn · Post by **StephenHorn** » Sat Jan 02, 2021 11:47 pm

Well, unfortunately, that is how I would interpret those error messages: r38 was built for 10.15, and as a result has inherited some dependency on 10.15, so it won't run on prior versions of OS X.

You might try building your own from the source code.

rje · Post by **rje** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 2:23 am

It runs on my Mac Mini... which is probably current.

EMwhite · Post by **EMwhite** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 3:45 am

Got it, I'll accept their latest push, something called "Big Sur".

I was a Unix SA twenty years ago, Sun Solaris mostly, and lived on gcc and linux in the years between. Can't be bothered now so hoping this works. Luckily, I still have my 2015 Mac running the old version of NI Maschine and my Early 2008 Mac Pro still running an old copy of Saffire Pro, U-Audio duo, and Ivory.

Thanks for the quick reply. (I spent about 5 hrs. typing my BBS Basic code form 1986 to Vice x64 only to lose it all). Typing into a beta copy of Commander is probably as good a bet : )

rje · Post by **rje** » Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:16 am

I remember SunOS and Solaris at my first job...

As for the emulator, I do most of the typing on the Mac, and only loading it into the X16 for testing. BASIC 2.0 is just too primitive for my sanity. I wrote a transpiler that lets me use labels and long variable names... it renders it down to 2.0 for testing. I’ve also done some cc65.