Post by atakker in Running on Mac. [Solved! (temporary fix, Bobbo's working on a better one)]

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I also had issues opening it at first.

I tried opening it from the terminal but get this error:

The application cannot be opened for an unexpected reason, error=Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 "Launch failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Launch failed., NSUnderlyingError=0x6000006903c0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=111 "Unknown error: 111" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Launchd job spawn failed}}}

That led me to this article: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/676627

In short to fix it run the following command in your terminal in the folder where the app/game is located: chmod +x ThatGameMac.app/Contents/MacOS/ThatGame

You should then be able to open the app. After I opened it the first time I had to first allow it to run by going to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > "Open Anyway"

BobboDev2 years ago(+1)

Thank you atakker! I really appreciate the assist, as I haven't had a proper opportunity to look into a real fix.

Basically the problem is that When you build a Mac version on PC the accessibility settings are all set wrong. It's a known problem and just another example of an easy problem to fix that Unity has know about for years and just not done anything about. There are solutions to this problem, I've just been stuck in travel-limbo trying to get home to my country and not had a great opportunity to sit down and fix it.

atakker2 years ago

It's a pleasure BobboDev, happy to help! If you need help compiling for MacOS I can try help as well.

P.S. Thanks for the awesome content and game.

Kotsucoder2 years ago (1 edit)

To be specific, it's a permissions issue. I don't know how Unity messed this up, but all that's needed is to add the "x" permission to ThatGame.app/Contents/MacOS/ThatGame using chmod. I don't see why this can't be done with Windows Subsystem for Linux (although I haven't tested that), but that should be much easier than setting up a Catalina VM (although setting up a Linux VM should also be easier if WSL doesn't work, tbh).

13Js2 years ago

Is this what I'm supposed to be doing? If it is then... ugh, not working. Please help, thanks.

Sami2 years ago

Do the same but on the folder including the ThatGameMac game (in other words, just one folder up in the hierarchy compared to what you tried). It did the trick for me. :)

Mr.Mail2 years ago

I've used the chmod +x ThatGameMac.app/Contents/MacOS/ThatGame before in the terminal, but it still docent seem to work. every single time I type it, the computer responds with

No such file or directory

PenitentEyeball2 years ago

I am having the exact same problem! not sure what to do...

LTecher2 years ago

try moving the game to /Applications and then type "chmod +x /Applications/ThatGameMac.app/Contents/MacOS/ThatGame"

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