Problems with LyX on Mac computers

[Stephan Witt]

Hi all,

unfortunately there is some problem with the LyX binaries on macOS Ventura. I built these binaries including the Qt frameworks. At the moment I don’t have the option to investigate the problem because I didn’t upgrade the build system (yet).

The Universal binary was build on Big Sur and requires at least macOS 10.14. For those unable to update to Mojave (10.14) I made an Intel binary for macOS 10.12 or newer.

I have no idea what the cause of the Ventura file open dialog is. My plan is to update the build system to macOS 13.x - so it should be possible to solve the problem then.

Best regards,
Stephan

> Am 22.01.2023 um 21:09 schrieb Edwin Burmeister <eb at econ.duke.edu>:
> 
> Sorry, I did not realize that the current binary for LyX 2.3.7 is a Universal application. That is what I have been using.
> 
> So apparently the problems encountered by Mac users are NOT due to Rosetta as I had wrongly guessed.
> 
> ***********************
> Edwin Burmeister
> Research Professor of Economics Emeritus
> Duke University
> Commonwealth Professor of Economics Emeritus
> University of Virginia
> eb at econ.duke.edu
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 22, 2023, at 2:10 PM, Christopher Menzel <chris.menzel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 22, 2023, at 10:48 AM, mark salmon <markhsalmon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Marcus in your reply to Ed Burmeister you said there are 2 installers for Lyx 2.3.7- for macs- one for old and one for new versions of MacOS .....I don't think I saw this when installing 2.3.7 I just chose the one option I saw in front of me-
>> 
>> The two installers are not for older and newer versions of MacOS, they are for older and newer Macs — older machines have Intel chips while newer machines have Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 chips). The installer for the universal LyX binary, which will run on either platform, includes the string “x86_64-arm64”; the installer for the Intel-only binary only includes the substring “x86_64”. In fact, both installers and both binaries will run on both older and newer machines (although, of course, the Intel binary requires the mediation of Rosetta on Apple Silicon machines). I suppose the Intel-only binary is a bit smaller and perhaps runs a bit faster on an Intel Mac, but would think the differences would be negligible (but I could be wrong).
>> 
>>> could this be the source of the graphics problem?
>> 
>> No. The problem arises under Ventura no matter which LyX binary you use.
>> 
>> Chris Menzel
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