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v0.8.1428 beta does not launch on macOS 10.13
Glamorous Toolkit v0.8.1428 does not actually run on macOS 10.13 as advertised. It crashes on start up creating the attached crash.dmp.
This on its own doesn't seem very informative, but since dyld was implicated in the stack trace I ran with DYLD_PRINT_APIS=1 and saw the following messages about missing __chkstk_darwin symbol and that the VM plugins had been compiled with a 10.15 target:
dlopen() failed, error: 'dlopen(libfreetype.dylib, 10): Symbol not found: ____chkstk_darwin
Referenced from: /Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libfreetype.dylib (which was built for Mac OS X 10.15)
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
in /Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libfreetype.dylib'
[...]
dlopen() failed, error: 'dlopen(/Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libgit2.dylib, 10): Symbol not found: ____chkstk_darwin
Referenced from: /Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libgit2.dylib (which was built for Mac OS X 10.15)
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
in /Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libgit2.dylib'
[...]
dlopen(/Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libSkia.dylib, 0x0000000A)
dlopen() failed, error: 'dlopen(/Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libSkia.dylib, 10): Symbol not found: ____chkstk_darwin
Referenced from: /Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libSkia.dylib
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
in /Users/geoff/Downloads/GlamorousToolkit-MacOS-x86_64-v0.8.1428/GlamorousToolkit.app/Contents/MacOS/Plugins/libSkia.dylib'
I'm not sure that this is the cause for the crash but I suspect it's related and certainly indicates that even if it didn't crash it wouldn't work for not being able to load these plugins for the associated primitives. Perhaps the crash is caused by insufficient error checking around dlopen/dlsym causing invalid arguments to be used which end up crashing in dyld.
