GMT 6.4.0 startup hang under Mac OS X 10.13.6 (High Sierra)

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1

Fresh download, hangs during startup under Mac OS X 10.13.6 with following diagnostic:
Mm-i7-A:~ garth$ /bin/bash “/Applications/GMT-6.4.0.app/Contents/MacOS/GMT-6.4.0” GMT_PROMPT
dyld: Library not loaded: @executable_path/…/lib/libgmt.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/GMT-6.4.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/gmt
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Applications/GMT-6.4.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/…/lib/libgmt.6.dylib: cannot load ‘libgmt.6.dylib’ (load command 0x80000034 is unknown)
/Applications/GMT-6.4.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/…/lib/libgmt.6.dylib: stat() failed with errno=1
/Applications/GMT-6.4.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/…/lib/libgmt.6.dylib: cannot load ‘libgmt.6.dylib’ (load command 0x80000034 is unknown)
/Applications/GMT-6.4.0.app/Contents/Resources/bin/…/lib/libgmt.6.dylib: stat() failed with errno=1
/Applications/GMT-6.4.0.app/Contents/MacOS/GMT-6.4.0: line 22: 46056 Abort trap: 6 “${BUNDLE_RESOURCES}/bin/gmt” “$@”

Any suggestions?
Thanks,

2

Ancient OS like high Sierra is not supported by the newer installer builds. Either upgrade OS or install an older GMT 6.x version, or build from source.

3

Could you provide any guidance as to either:

  1. oldest Mac OS X version that is compatible with current GMT builds
  2. latest GMT that would run under OS X 10.13.6 (High Sierra)

The former would be useful information in a “System Requirements” accompanying each release.

The latter is of course only useful to me (or other OS X dinosaurs).

Many thanks,

4

This is not a GMT.jl question

5

Just peruse the compatibility table under install.

6

The MacPorts installation described on the GMT GitHub page might help with getting GMT installed on an older macOS, if you want a newer version than the pre-built installer for your macOS 10.13 can install.

7

My apologies. I completely missed that compatibility table despite looking for exactly that info.
Many thanks for your very helpful reply.