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Crash at startup, OS X, 10.3.9oldmanscanlon04/17/2009 - 09:09

Installed game from CD, P/N 61276-CD (no other ID on disk). Crashes on startup in OS X 10.3.9. Crash log says:

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Host Name:      R-Scanlons-Computer.local
Date/Time:      2009-04-09 11:59:37 -0400
OS Version:    10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
Report Version: 2

Command: World of Goo
Path:    /Volumes/WorldOfGoo/World of Goo.app/Contents/MacOS/World of Goo
Version: ??? (???)
PID:    4584
Thread:  Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

dyld: /Volumes/WorldOfGoo/World of Goo.app/Contents/MacOS/World of Goo can't open library: /usr/lib/libcurl.3.dylib  (No such file or directory, errno = 2)


Re: Crash at startup, OS X, 10.3.9Soultaker04/17/2009 - 09:54

Apparently the OS X version of the game references a library that is only included in Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. Is upgrading an option?

Re: Crash at startup, OS X, 10.3.9oldmanscanlon04/17/2009 - 10:24

Thanks, I suspected that was going to be the case. I'll upgrade if you're offering to buy me an external DVD drive and 10.4  ;)

The web demo does say 10.4, but CD and Providence Apple store claim 10.3 and higher.

Re: Crash at startup, OS X, 10.3.9Soultaker04/17/2009 - 10:55

If you don't want to upgrade your OS, maybe you could just upgrade curl (which is a free library, after all), although the game may well have other dependencies that aren't fixable without upgrading...

I'm not a Mac user so I don't know a lot about this, but if you are feeling adventurous, you could try copying /usr/lib/libcurl.3.dylib to  /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib and see what happens...

Re: Crash at startup, OS X, 10.3.9oldmanscanlon04/17/2009 - 11:01

If only. I already tried making a symlink to the existing lib file. Then you get a version incompatibility error:

dyld: /Applications/World of Goo.app/Contents/MacOS/World of Goo version mismatch for library: /usr/lib/libcurl.3.dylib (compatibility version of user: 4.0.0 greater than library's version: 3.0.0)

Re: Crash at startup, OS X, 10.3.9pharm04/24/2009 - 11:12

[quote author=oldmanscanlon link=topic=1774.msg11749#msg11749 date=1239984095]
If only. I already tried making a symlink to the existing lib file. Then you get a version incompatibility error:

dyld: /Applications/World of Goo.app/Contents/MacOS/World of Goo version mismatch for library: /usr/lib/libcurl.3.dylib (compatibility version of user: 4.0.0 greater than library's version: 3.0.0)



Try installing libcurl using from MacPorts ? (http://macports.org/)