MACOS: ScummVM Fails To Start

[battlesg]

The recent version of ScummVm does not launch on my MacBook. What am I able to do to fix this problem?

[digitall]

@battlesg: You have not read the Bug Submission guidelines on the front page, specifically we would need a bit more information to debug this:

Please check you are including all the following information in your bug report:

ScummVM version (scummvm -v)
Bug details, including step-by-step instructions to reproduce the bug
Language of game (English, German, ...)
Version of game (CD, Floppy, DOS, Amiga, ...)
Your OS, including version and device if appropriate (Windows 10 build 1709 32-bit, Debian 9.2 x86_64, Android 7.0 on Samsung Galaxy S7, ...)
Attach a save game if possible
If this bug only occurred recently, please note the last version without the bug, and the first version including the bug. That way we can fix it quicker by looking at the changes made.
Next, select the game in the 'Game' dropdown, and the game engine or other component in the 'Component' dropdown. Enter your text, and hit the button!

[digitall]

As a minimum:

1. What model of MacBook?
2. What version of MacOS / OSX are you running?
3. Which version of ScummVM are you trying to run? v2.6.1 stable? The latest release versions are here: ​https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/
4. If these do not work, try the latest master development releases (v2.7.0pre) from here: ​https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/dailybuilds This may be necessary if you have a M1 Macbook.

Let us know if this solves your problem...

[criezy]

If you have:

• A M1 or M2 Mac (as opposed to older Intel macs).
• macOS 11 (Big Sur)
• ScummVM 1.6.1

Then this is à know issue that was discussed on our forum (​https://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=16756) and confirmed with another user on our Discord server. I have a fix for the next release, but in the meantime the workaround I described in the forum should work and allow you to use ScummVM 3.6.1.

Another solution for that bug is to upgrade to macOS 12.

[somaen]

Would be good to clear this out for 2.9.0 (It might even have been fixed in the previous two versions too). Flagging as High Priority for closure.

[criezy]

I forgot this ticket existed. This was already fixed at least since version 2.8.0, but I think already in 2.7.0 as well. This was just a matter of targeting macOS 11 (adding -mmacosx-version-min=11.0 to the compilation flags) when building for ARM.