2.2.0-rc2 fails to install on BigSur 11.1

Hi Armin,

finally time for my requote: your new DMG package works quite well on my Mac Air with M1 and Big Sur 11.2.3 (20D91)

Many thanks for your great support!

Greetz from the Eifel-Ardennes

Glad to hear that.
Many thanks for your report.

I have just tried to install 2.1.3 on my OS X Big Sur (11.2.3) and it crashed.
My system is:
Model Name: MacBook Pro [2019]
  Model Identifier: MacBookPro15,2
  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Core i7
  Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
  Number of Processors: 1
  Total Number of Cores: 4
  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
  L3 Cache: 8 MB
  Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
  Memory: 16 GB
  System Firmware Version: 1554.80.3.0.0 (iBridge: 18.16.14347.0.0,0)
  Serial Number (system): C02C71RLLVDL
  Hardware UUID: 22E21B9A-3044-55E1-AB88-DC0D62027B61
  Provisioning UDID: 22E21B9A-3044-55E1-AB88-DC0D62027B61
  Activation Lock Status: Enabled

Just a quick note to report successful running on:

MacBook Air (M1, 2020) running BigSur 11.2.3

LibreCad
Version: 2.2.0-rc2
Compiler: Clang 12.0.0
Compiled on: Feb 15 2021
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Boost Version: 1.71.0
System: macOS 11.2

<s>Upgrading now to 11.3, so will report back once more.
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Upgraded to 11.3 and that is also working fine.

I was trying to install LibreCAD-2.2.0-rc2-BigSur.dmg on MacOS Big Sur 11.5 and i could not install it because the system was saying that "The developer can not be verified" and was asking to eject the disk image!.

This is because we have no maintainer with a payed Apple license to sign the DMG package.

I can't test it, but I found some links how to install unsigned packages on Mac OS:
https://it.nmu.edu/docs/allowing-third-party-applications-install-macbook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRlnHW-7uek

Hopefully some of you are subscribed to this thread

We need some help again to test a new package.

I just created https://sourceforge.net/projects/librecad/files/OSX/2.2/experimental/
There is a macOS package, 2.2.0-rc3, which was built with GitHub Actions on Big Sur.
I could test this package on a High Sierra system, which is our oldest supported macOS, and it worked well.
So we need some more response, to ensure the Big Sur package will run on all supported macOS.
Then we can activate Actions for continuous macOS builds.

Many thanks

Hi, @LordOfBikes,

I successfully installed and opened 2.2.0-rc3-2-g63a35fa0 on MacOSx 11.6 intel i7.

I can open and work on some dwg and dxf files. (Some dwg files still not opened, but I think this is related to dwg file versions and classes)

Thanks

Many thanks for testing and reporting @savokov.

Indeed, DWG is another issue, it still has a bunch of unsupported entities and also latest versions, newer than 2017 are not supported by libdxfrw.
Important is, that these files don't crash LibreCAD.
This is one of the improvements in 2.2.0.

I have installed LibreCAD 2.2.0 rc3 on a MacBook Pro M1 running OS 12.1. App starts and runs but after a few hours, I have noticed the following:

1. In dark mode the command prompts start white but change to dark blue rendering them unreadable

2. The tangent to two circles function does not select elements (works in 2.1.3 on same file)

3. The zoom in/out function on mouse gestures (Apple mouse) renders the app almost unusable (problem exists in 2.1.3 too). Need to add a feature to disable or at least reduce sensitivity.

Will continue to use 2.2.0 rc3 and post if I find additional.

John R.

JohnR wrote

1. In dark mode the command prompts start white but change to dark blue rendering them unreadable

John, have you been able to overcome this? Dark mode seems to be working well in LibreCAD 2.2.0.1 on macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79), but the blue command prompt is still unreadable.

Maybe this can be customized via Options → Widget Options → Style Sheet? But I don't know what to enter there to customize the color.

Thanks,
Tomek

P.S. Overall the LibreCAD experience on macOS has been perfect for a newbie like me! Warm thanks to everyone who made this possible. I can only imagine how much hard work went into this under the hood! 💪