MacOS app from release can't be opened

[TrickoUK]

After downloading the MacOS image, it's not possible to open it on MacOS 15.4.1 at least, launching it gives an error dialog - '"ArcadeManager" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Bin.'

It its an Apple Silicon Mac I'm using rather than Intel just to state the obvious.

[macaaaron]

Indeed.
Could you please help?

Macbook Air M3, Sequoia 15.4.1.

[cosmo0]

Hello

I'm sorry but I can't help much, as I don't have a MacOS ARM and I rely on an external build tool.

You can follow the instructions listed here, it's not very hard: https://github.com/cosmo0/arcade-manager#development ; you don't have to run "electronize start" but you'll have to run "electronize build /target osx /electron-arch arm64"

Please let me know how it goes

[TrickoUK]

I gave it a go after installing DotNet / Node etc, but it doesn't build and I've no experience with DotNet / node / electron to know where to even start looking at unfortunately.
Log attached in case it helps.

build.txt

[cosmo0]

Access to the path '/Users/robot/.local/share/NuGet' is denied.
Permission denied

Seems like a permission issue, unfortunately as I don't have access to this MacOS version I can't check what's happening :(

[TrickoUK]

It a build setup problem I think.

NuGet is apparently some package manager tool, but windows only. When I looked, there's a whole bunch of random versions or replacements people have done for visual studio code which can run on the Mac in theory.

Hopefully someone who uses .NET/Electron etc on the Mac might come along and be able to figure out what's really needed in terms of the build setup for Mac to either get it building on the command line, or VS code, but I've failed in my blind stumbling around for the first time in VS code...

[cosmo0]

No, Nuget is the standard .Net package manager but it's cross platform - I use it on my Mac, but since it has an Intel architecture I'm stuck with .Net 6. There must have been some kind of issue during .Net install. How did you install it?

Oh, maybe you only installed the runtime? You need the SDK versions: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/download/dotnet/thank-you/sdk-6.0.428-macos-arm64-installer and https://dotnet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/download/dotnet/thank-you/sdk-8.0.409-macos-arm64-installer

You actually don't need VSCode, only the build tools (.Net 6, .Net 8, NodeJS and Electron).

[TrickoUK]

Odd, as it was indeed the SDK I installed for both 8 and 6, just using those downloads.
And running 'dotnet --info' shows both are installed, but i cant find anything 'nugen' related when I search on my mac.

[cosmo0]

Ah! After re-reading your build log I notice you skipped a step. You should do a dotnet build before electronize build, and do it from the src/ArcadeManager folder.

So it should be:

cd src/ArcadeManager
dotnet build
electronize build /target osx /electron-arch arm64

[scarroll32]

Same for me, M1 Max 32GB ram

[scarroll32]

No luck with 7.1 either

[mtklr]

xattr -cr /Applications/ArcadeManager.app from a terminal will remove the "quarantine" attributes from the app folder preventing it from running. Once it launches I've had some issues though with it, a blank main window that I somehow managed to get to show, not sure how, but after that i couldn't get rom lists to load...

(just tried previous version (7.1) and it works fine - this is on macos sonoma, macbook air m3 fwiw.)

thx to the developer for continuing work on this project!

[CmdNCtrl]

I can confirm the same experience as @mtklr with 25.1 on a MacBook M2, Tahoe 26.2. I cleared the quarantine attribute with sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ArcadeManager.app which allowed it to open. But then I also had similar to issues with a white screen at first and then the "Browse" buttons not actually populating a folder/file that I selected.

Downloaded 7.1, ran the same command to clear the quarantine attribute and it works fine.