Golly doesn't work in OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

[lukebradford]

I get the following error: "Golly cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure Golly works with this version of OS X."

Is this a known issue? If so, are there plans to support 10.9?

[Andrew]

I think the problem is due to an incompatibility in the Perl library. Start up Terminal, cd to the directory containing Golly.app, and try this command:

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install_name_tool -change /System/Library/Perl/lib/5.10/libperl.dylib /System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib Golly.app/Contents/MacOS/Golly

If that doesn't fix the problem then please send me the crash report.

Someone reported another crash when trying to open the File > Run Script dialog. This seems to be a bug in the wxWidgets code so I've reported the problem and hopefully there will be a fix before too long. Until then, you can run scripts by clicking on their names in the left panel, or via keyboard shortcuts.

[lukebradford]

It works, thanks!

[andyd]

Unfortunately Golly has stopped working on my OSX Mavericks mac. It was working fine on Snow Leopard! I tried the command above in terminal, but no luck. Here is the crash report, hope you can help? We love Golly!

Crashed Thread: 0

Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/Perl/lib/5.8/libperl.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/golly-2.2-mac/Golly.app/Contents/MacOS/Golly
Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
0x8fe89000 - 0x8febb417 dyld (239.3) <4B280BB1-55F8-313F-86A6-8ADD644ED69E> /usr/lib/dyld

[Andrew]

Unfortunately Golly has stopped working on my OSX Mavericks mac. ...

You need to download golly-2.6-mac109.zip from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/f ... golly-2.6/