Hi all,

I’m new to J and am trying to install J9.4 on my M1 Macbook (arm64) with macOS 
13.3.1.

I used the zip from the wiki page [1] and followed all the steps under macOS. 
After that, I tried to follow the steps under „Finnish Installation“, but when 
I start jconsole, I get the error „ill-formed number: boot“ and loading pacman 
is not possible. Clicking on jqt.app seems to crash jqt immediately. Simple 
expressions inside the console get evaluated, however:

% ./jconsole 
|ill-formed number: boot
|   dm=. 0 2 320 1280 2 720 243.247 244.273
|        ^
|   android_getdisplaymetrics=:3     :0
|[-201] /Users/nils/J/j9.4/system/main/stdlib.ijs

   load 'pacman'
|value error: load
|       load’pacman'

   1 + 1
2
   <: 1 2 3 4
0 1 2 3

Am I doing it wrong or is this a problem with J on arm64 macOS? Installation on 
Windows 10 on amd64 with winget worked without any problems.

I also did not find the matching source code for this release, or any release 
at all, so I could not try to compile J from source.

Kind regards
Nils

[1] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J9.4/Zips
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