Not able to run Desktop projects in 2025R1

Unfortunately my issue from the beta has carried into the release version.

No plugins installed, any project (even an empty one), “Compilation of {project} failed.” “An error occurred when attempting to launch the application.”

Web projects and command line projects work fine, so this seems to be isolated to Mac desktop apps. 2024r4.2 and older Xojo versions work fine. MacOS Ventura on an M1 Max.

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Sorry to hear that, Christian. Has this been reported already through Issues?

This used to happen to me years ago when Xojo failed to remove the old Debug app and I tried to run again ie check if there’s an old app version stopping the compilation.

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The topic he opened in the forum does not mention one.

https://forum.xojo.com/t/compilation-failed-64919/84613/

But other cases also weren’t included, so @Christian_Wheel can report it and let’s expect a dot release with some relevant ones, if such very important fail is reproducible.

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Hi Christian, did you tried these tipps?
https://forum.xojo.com/t/compilation-failed-64919/84613/8?u=thomas_kaltschmidt

I’ve been away for a few days but based on a thread on the testers forum, 2025R1 fails to run desktop projects on Ventura or older.

Issue 78815 created.

Which points to macOS 14.x being the lowest supported version. I saw something like that when I was attempting to sign an application the other day. AppWrapper pointed out that 14.0.0 should be the minimum supported version.

I doubt that this is a deliberate change, but only Xojo can say.

No problems here on a mac mini Intel and Ventura version 13.7.4

Interesting that it’s working for you on Intel. Everything I’ve tried it on has been Apple Silicon, so perhaps it’s both architecture + OS needed to reproduce.

I am able to reproduce the issue in a VM with a brand new install of Ventura, no changes or apps installed into the OS at all other than Xojo, but on an M2 Studio.

Same problem with 2025r1 trying to build / test projects on an M1 with Monterey.

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Workaround! Change the architecture of your project to “x86 64-bit” and it will run in the debugger.

ARM 64-bit and Universal will fail to compile on Ventura or older on Apple Silicon.

You can change it back to Universal to do your build.

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Yep. We are aware of the issue and the fix is on its way. Sorry for that, guys!

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