since MacOS 10.14 we get a warning starting the Netgen - gui, but it still works. It comes from the Togl - OpenGL interface. Building Netgen on MacOS 10.14 requires an elder SDK as workaround, see the documentation from here: Build on Mac OS X. — NGS-Py 6.2.2302 documentation
I just updated my Macbook to MacOS 10.14.6, and Netgen does not start anymore. I get logged out whenever I start the Netgen-gui.
Please be careful with updating, and let us know about your experience or workarounds.
We are working on the new gui using new OpenGL (or maybe Vulcan/Metal) standards, but it will take still some months for release. I was not expecting the problem that fast.
just to let you know, after reading you post and having also updated to MacOS 10.14.6 (2019 MBP) yesterday, I checked my old installation (built from commit 8694e0e0b1db71f8e54a87a2bc236cbc04d56231) and it still worked as normal. I also did a clean build from the latest sources and the GUI also works without a problem for me.
Launching Netgen via click at netgen.app doesn’t work.
But the GUI can be started via command line
% /Applications/Netgen.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.sh
Then everything is fine, except that you then have to load any .py from inside netgen and not directly via
% netgen mypathyn.py
[quote=“joachim” post=1794]Thank you for confirming that Netgen runs on 10.15 Catalina !
By clicking on the netgen.app, we first start the script Netgen1.
Can you start it manually via
/Applications/Netgen.app/Contents/MacOS/Netgen1
best, Joachim[/quote]
Negative, that results in following error:
jfk@Trill ~ % /Applications/Netgen.app/Contents/MacOS/Netgen1
FSPathMakeRef(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) failed with error -43.
FYI: I’m using the compiled binary as downloaded from the NGSolve website, not a manually compiled version.
I’m using the call to startup.sh to actually start the app.
Using this
% /Applications/Netgen.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.sh
in command-line immediately brings up the GUI, no additional calls.
[quote=“jfk68” post=1796]
Negative, that results in following error:
jfk@Trill ~ % /Applications/Netgen.app/Contents/MacOS/Netgen1
FSPathMakeRef(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) failed with error -43.
FYI: I’m using the compiled binary as downloaded from the NGSolve website, not a manually compiled version.
I’m using the call to startup.sh to actually start the app.
Using this
% /Applications/Netgen.app/Contents/MacOS/startup.sh
in command-line immediately brings up the GUI, no additional calls.