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] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
