Certainly not. I built the dmg on an Intel Mac and it runs fine on my machine. The code currently is running on Rosetta for arm/silicon. My Mac is running Sonoma not Catalina. I would not think that is a problem since it is set to build for an older OS. Do you have any more info about the crash? I have been very busy recently and have not had much time. Was it on startup or running a driver? Can you run KStars from the command line to get a little more info?

Thanks Rob. It crashed upon startup with a message that it was not compatible with my Mac. I will download it again just to make sure it was not corrupt. I’ll experiment tomorrow.

I have the same problem as Peter. It crashes on startup...

Intel based MacOs 12.5

Well, I had downloaded using the link in #98509 and it runs on my M1 Mac Studio (only tested launching, not further testing by connecting ekos drivers).
I've just downloaded again, and the new version still works for me.

Note that I had right-click open twice as the 1st time, it refuses to give me the option to open the app anyway.

Cheers

Hi,
Downloaded latest. But my EAF is nowhere to find! Rest equipment is fine. Just please check the ASI drivers again.

Try to create a new profile, that worked for me.
discord.com/channels/1155377982878273577.../1202623914027782175

It just took a minute or so to discover the EAF. I got itnow working.

I downloaded it again, and it still won't work.



Error report here:

I just tried to launched it from the command line:

NMCosmos:Applications nmcosmos$ Open -a "KStars.app"
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/KStars.app with error -10810.
NMCosmos:Applications nmcosmos$

Sorry Peter, I should have been more clear. I meant running it from the Terminal like this:

/Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars

Just type that and then hit enter. It will put all the output in the terminal and say whatever error happens more clearly and with more context about what is going on. It should look something like this (assuming it starts to launch and assuming you don't have your output going to a text file):

rlancaste@Orion ~ % /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars
Call to writableLocation without an application-based location.
org.kde.kstars: Welcome to KStars 3.6.9 Beta
org.kde.kstars: Build: 2024-01-26T20:43:19Z
org.kde.kstars: OS: "osx"
org.kde.kstars: API: "x86_64-little_endian-lp64"
org.kde.kstars: Arch: "x86_64"
org.kde.kstars: Kernel Type: "darwin"
org.kde.kstars: Kernel Version: "23.2.0"
org.kde.kstars: Qt Version: 5.15.12
Starting DBus

From this information I can see the context of what it tried to do before crashing, which can help to figure out why it crashed.

if it doesn't all load and launch properly, it should look more like this:

/Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars
dyld[43469]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libcfitsio.4.dylib
Referenced from: <6F725553-BA37-37E9-8FE8-14001FC17C57> /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars
Reason: tried: '/Applications/KStars.app/Contents/Frameworks/libcfitsio.4.dylib' (no such file), '/Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/libcfitsio.4.dylib' (no such file), '/Applications/KStars.app/Contents/Frameworks/libcfitsio.4.dylib' (no such file), '/Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/libcfitsio.4.dylib' (no such file)
zsh: abort /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars

If you can see it, from this I can tell that the reason it did not launch was because it couldn't find libcfitsio.4.dylib, which I temporarily removed just to cause the error so you can see what information we would probably need to solve your crash.

I always find those MacOS crash reports to be hard to understand and read. If I read it correctly it said it could not find some function in /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib, which is pretty weird since that is a MacOS system file. This is why I asked you to run it from the command line, it can confirm this, or provide more info

NMCosmos:Applications nmcosmos$ /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/kstars

dyld: Symbol not found: __ZTVNSt3__13pmr25monotonic_buffer_resourceE
Referenced from: /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore
Expected in: /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib
in /Applications/KStars.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/QtCore
Abort trap: 6

NMCosmos:Applications nmcosmos$