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Hi, the MacOS versions should work on Apple Silicon, but unfortunately I don’t have a Mac to test it.

Does it give you an error?

Have you tried running the tools from the Terminal app?

Thanks!

Yes, the apps produce the following error message on M1 Pro:

You can’t open the application “GBSFont2BG” because this application is not supported on this Mac.

How would I run them with Terminal?

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Thank you Mike! That gave me the clue I needed to solve it 🙂

The macOS binaries were not working because I tried cross-compiling from Linux, but this didn’t create proper binaries for macOS.

So I went visit a friend who has a Mac, and compiled the three tools there. GBSFontInverter and GBSFontJSON compiled perfectly on the Mac, and work just as well as they do on Linux and Windows.

But GBSFont2BG for macOS gave me some issues: it doesn’t remove the temp files (you’ll see a lot of png files after running it) and doesn’t generate the sample image (resized 3x). But the main thing works, generating the Background.png with your text! 🥳

I just realized that I only tested it from the terminal, would you mind testing it from the Finder and let me know if they work? If not:

  • Command (⌘) + Space
  • type “terminal” and press enter
  • cd name-of-the-directory-with-the-program-text.txt-and-font
  • chmod +x GBSFont2BG
  • ./GBSFont2BG
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Thank you for updating Santiago!

The applications must be run as described above. After updating their permissions with chmod, they will attempt to run but produce no output when launched from Finder.

Thank you Mike for testing it!

I added a “notes for macOS.txt” file that explains how to run it on macOS using the terminal.