Reported Vim version is null when MacVim is run via GUI

[dlejay]

Steps to reproduce

1. Open MacVim via GUI
2. Click about
3. See the null version

Expected behaviour

Show the actual Vim version.

When running mvim from the command line the issue disappears.

Version of Vim and architecture

Good question

Environment

macOS Sonoma

How MacVim was installed

Homebrew

Logs and stack traces

No response

Vim configuration where issue is reproducable

No response

Issue has been tested with given configuration

• [ ] by running MacVim.app from GUI macOS interface
• [ ] by running vim/gvim/etc installed by MacVim
• [ ] by running other versions of vim (e.g. /usr/bin/vim)

Issue has been tested with no configuration

• [X] by running mvim --clean (or gvim, supplied by MacVim distribution)
• [ ] by running vim --clean (in terminal, supplied by MacVim distribution)
• [ ] by running vim --clean (in terminal, other suppliers, e.g. /usr/bin/vim)

Other conditions

• [ ] The both Homebrew packages "vim" and "macvim" are installed

[dlejay]

Upgrading Macvim solved the issue.

[ychin]

Were you building MacVim yourself in Xcode? The fact that you saw "null" in the version implies to me that you were building MacVim yourself instead of building MacVim using the Makefile. I don't think anything between r177 and r178 would have fixed any issue on this.