Hi John,

How stupid am I - yes double clicking Factor.app or "open Factor.app" does
the trick.

I guess I got distracted by the message at the end of the build which says

Now, you can run Factor:
/Users/steve/factor/./factor -i=factor.image

I guess that is more for Unix builds.


On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 21:41, John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a Factor.app in that same folder as the binary that you can
> open.  Does that work?
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:40 AM Steve Davies <st...@telviva.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new here.  I cloned factor from Github onto my MacOS 10.15.7 box.
>>
>> I followed the Unix build instructions to build master (main?) - the
>> build.sh script had some MacOS conditional code so it looked hopeful:
>>
>>   ./build.sh update
>>
>> A binary resulted, however the binary just runs the REPL in the shell and
>> I don't seem to have the GUI.
>>
>> The downloadable pre-built 0.98 for Mac brings up the really nice Factor
>> GUI.
>>
>> Are there build/bootstrap instructions for the Mac somewhere since
>> clearly I've missed something?
>>
>> I also don't succeed with the nightly build for the mac - it was actually
>> built in April and doesn't seem to be signed to Apple's satisfaction (yes,
>> I know...).  If is say "run anyway" I don't seem to get any UI displayed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>
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