Thanks all,

Norman, I put the J zip binaries in this directory

/Users/johnbaker/Documents/j64/j902

I got most things working - only jqt is mia.

I was wondering if Documents is treated differently by macOS.  What
does a typical macOS path (as shown by pwd) look like?

John





On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:32 AM Norman Drinkwater
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> macOS for Catalina and later require a couple of extra steps to install
> QtIDE because of security changes to the OS. Try the following:
> 1. Download j902_mac64.zip from jsoftware. Unzip and place the folder in
> your home directory.
> 2. Open a terminal in the j902 folder. Run
>    ./macos-fix.command
> 3. Start jconsole using the jcon icon in the j902 folder.
> 4. In jconsole, run the following
>    load'pacman'
>    'install' jpkg '*'
>   All of the addons as well as the jqt binaries and Qt libraries will be
> installed.
>   exit the terminal with exit''
> 5. Run jqt using the jqt icon in the j902 folder. After a bit, you should
> see the jqt terminal.
>    You should be able to run the commands:
>       wd'version'
> 1.9.2/5.12.10(5.12.10)
>    9!:14''
> j902/j64avx2/darwin/release-b/commercial/
> www.jsoftware.com/2021-02-18T13:05:10/clang-12-0-0/SLEEF=1
>
> Norman
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:27 AM John Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I managed to setup j 9.02 on a Big Sur macos intel machine and get jconsole
> > and JHS running, but I've had no luck with JQT however. pacman downloaded
> > the binaries and I see them in the J bin directory but attempts to run JQT
> > don't even throw up - "you're doing it all wrong errors." I suspect macos
> > is attempting to protect me from running software Apple does not collect
> > royalties on.
> >
> > I'm not a fan of the security obstacles current OSs are throwing up when it
> > comes to installing software!  I was able to override the script blocks and
> > get the non JQT parts of J running but  any advice from J users of recent
> > macos versions would be appreciated.
> >
> > I'm really looking forward to setting up Linux virtual machines on this
> > thing ---- not!
> >
> > --
> > John D. Baker
> > [email protected]
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