Open Aethondon opened 2 months ago
Hi, the packaging for MacOS was set up by @Ryex, and I don't know the limitations. The DMG is built on MacOS 12. I am not a Mac user and don't own any Apple hardware of any kind, so there is relatively little I can do. I'm also having problems with the M1 release.
Your best bet is to install a Python environment on your Mac and then install novelWriter as a Python package.
See https://novelwriter.io/docs/int_started.html#installing-from-pypi
Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly and for your advice!
Donald
On Monday, 8 July 2024 at 12:09, Veronica Berglyd Olsen @.***> wrote:
Hi, the packaging for MacOS was set up by @.***(https://github.com/Ryex), and I don't know the limitations. The DMG is built on MacOS 12. I am not a Mac user and don't own any Apple hardware of any kind, so there is relatively little I can do. I'm also having problems with the M1 release.
Your best bet is to install a Python environment on your Mac and then install novelWriter as a Python package.
See https://novelwriter.io/docs/int_started.html#installing-from-pypi
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Yeah, sadly there isn't much to be done if the DMG crashes. Trying to maintain a build for MacOSX wouldn't be fun (though in theory it should be a simple as setting up CI to run the same build process on a 10.x variant)
pip install --user novelwriter
in theory you could also build your own DMG.
pip3 install -r docs/source/requirements.txt
python3 pkgutils.py build-assets
./setup/macos/build.sh 3.12 x86_64 x86_64
./dist_macos
I may add that once you do have a Python environment on the Mac, updating novelWriter through pip is just a matter of running pip install -U novelwriter
whenever there is a new release.
Sorry I'm pretty inexperienced with coding in general but I've installed PIP through homebrew and the command
pip install --user novelwriter
just comes up as command not found?
Maybe you need pip3 install --user novelwriter
instead? Not sure if Homebrew still distinguishes between Python 2 and 3 that way. It's common on Linux to have to add the 3.
Yeah, sadly there isn't much to be done if the DMG crashes. Trying to maintain a build for MacOSX wouldn't be fun (though in theory it should be a simple as setting up CI to run the same build process on a 10.x variant)
MacOS 12 is the oldest available on GitHub Actions, so it would require even further steps to achieve. I'm hoping they keep 12 for a while since the build fails on 13.
Hi,
I run a 2012 macbook with OS 10.13 High Sierra because it crashes on anything newer and I like that I can repair this macbook. I would really like to use NovelWriter to edit a novel manuscript but it seems to be built on a much newer version of Mac OS and doesn't work on 10.13.
Are there any older releases or back-compatible versions I could use?
Many thanks in advance,
Donald