Compilation failed MacOS M1 chip

Targets macOS
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The error:
Compilation of ___ failed
An error occurred when attempting to launch the application.

is back. This week I upgraded to the new MacBookPro running the new M1 chip. I am on MacOS 11.3 and Xojo 2021 v1.1 Xojo apps that compiled clean last week will not compile and launch this week with my New MacBook Pro.

I see this error received a lot of forum attention over the last 5 years, but I do not see a solution to the current problem.

Xojo must be aware of this problem by now so I’ll try not to panic.

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I think most people can compile with Macs with M1 chip. If you can provide more information I’m sure someone with experience will try to help you.

Things like:

  • do you have Rosetta
  • do you want to compile as Universal, Intel or ARM
  • do you have any plugins

From what I read, some plugins need to be updated to avoid compilation problems.

4

Changing the compile to Universal worked. Everything seems to be running normally now.
FYI my large flat panel Apple monitor (10+ years old) was causing external drives to not be recognized and a second monitor to go dark. When upgrading to a new computer, this is the worst possible time to have hardware problems and not know what is causing the trouble. When I finally got that large monitor unplugged and out of the room, everything started working normally. It was a long day.

5

That’s sad. Did you have the correct adapter, I’ll have to look it up again, but when I went to buy the adapter, to connect the Apple TBD to a TB3 Mac, the first one I looked at was full of bad reviews saying it doesn’t work.
I think Apple may have removed those reviews now.