What's wrong?

[Person]

I downloaded 0.6 when it first came out, but it always quit before anything opened. I decided to get to the bottom of that now and pulled up a crash report from when it... crashed.

Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /Users/bill/libs-ppc/lib/libmodplug.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Volumes/LÖVE/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love
Reason: image not found

this was found at the bottom and seems most likely to be the problem.

I ran it from the DMG on the desktop so I tried copying it to the desktop and running and got the same message... I remember it doing this even when I ran it with an actual game file too.

Do I need to download libmodplug?

P.S. 0.5 worked fine before

[bmelts]

That's... odd. That message is an artifact from when the OS X build used .dylibs for most of the third-party libraries, instead of frameworks. But... that problem should have been fixed. And I can't find that particular reference anywhere.

Try this, and tell me if it works: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1830330/love.dmg

[Person]

Thanks for the replay but this doesn't work either. It opens and closes before even the first bounce on the dock. I don't get the option to see a crash report. Should I try running from a terminal? One this I noticed that might be helpful is that when I copy the app from the dmg it has a custom icon for the copy operation that is different from the icon of the app.

[bmelts]

That's really, really odd. You should at least get an error message.

You can try running it from the Terminal, you should then at least get a reason for it quitting. I don't have a PPC to test this on, and running it under Rosetta shows no unexpected results, so I'm relying on you here.

[Person]

Nothing. That's even odd for me. I'm on the desktop, type open love.app, the app opens and closes before it bounces once then the terminal instantly goes to a new line for me to type stuff into. Not even a single error message. Is there a specific command I should use or is it my computer specs? I will compile I nice list of that later I guess since that's the only thing I can think to do right now.

Power Mac G4 (1.25GHz)

Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 74.4 GB
Available: 14.55 GB
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk1s10
Mount Point: /

Graphics: ATI Radeon 9000 Pro

RAM: 1x256MB DDR SDRAM
2x512MB DDR SDRAM

*Update*
just tried the app on an intel macbook where it worked fine (nice splash screen by the way). So it isn't my internet or the app itself.

[bmelts]

It could still be the app itself, if there's something awry with the PPC binary. But, it should work

What version of OS X are you running on your G4?

[Person]

Mac OS X 10.5.8

and that mad face is very angry looking!

[bmelts]

Here's a request: run LÖVE, let it crash. As soon as it does, open up /Applications/Utilities/Console.app, copy any messages with "love" in the Sender[PID] column, and paste them to a pastebin or something. Then either post the link here or PM me with it. Maybe that will contain some sort of elusive hint as to why LÖVE isn't working.

[Person]

I found crash notices!

http://pastebin.ca/1742084

is the URL.

[bmelts]

Hm.

Those aren't good (memory leaks never are), but they shouldn't cause LÖVE to crash. In fact, I get those on the Intel version as well, which runs just fine.

Thanks for pointing those out (I may have a fix for that), but they don't explain why LÖVE won't run. Did you get any other messages from love?