xTIMEcomposer Big Sur macOS 11

[Redeye]

Has anybody tried xTIMEcomposer on macOS 11 yet? Presumably we still need to jump through all the hoops to get Java installed and give the security permissions to let the unsigned binaries run, but does it otherwise work?

[aclassifier]

I have failed miserably, both on Catalina(*) and Big Sur (I have two living machines with them, so I can test both). Even after downloading and installing the ModifiedJava6Install.pkg from [1].

I am not the best at this, but I have tried so much.

This is painful to the users, it puts XMOS in a rather dim light rather depressing. I wish I didn't have to live with this.

To my rescue, the machine I use the most I still have High Sierra on. Apple update it, but still. On that machine, only xflash has to run from Terminal...

I only hope that they would release an xTIMEcomposer that runs on Catalina and Big Sur (which I guess are more equal than Catalina and High Sierra).

(*) I have not done "the security permissions to let the unsigned binaries run" for Catalina [2], but for Big Sur I'm not certain that I got as far as that. Big Sur says that "JavaVM: Failed to load JVM: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/libserver.dylib JavaVM FATAL: Failed to load the jvm library." even if it looked like I was able to install the ModifiedJava6Install.pkg (it failed once, but when I tried again it said successful. It may have been to and so.)

If anybody has a hold-in-hand recipe better than [2] for Catalina, I'd be happy to see it here! Like, for which executables?

[1] https://sharkfinesse.com/mac-os-catalin ... pendencies
[2] https://www.xmos.ai/file/running-xtimec ... -catalina/

[aclassifier]

Is it these files that would need to be allowed through the security check? These, more or less?

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/Applications/XMOS_xTIMEcomposer_Community_14.4.1/bin
waf
xcc
xflash_image_check
xmap
xntools
xta
xaddr2line
xfindlib
xgdb
xmosar
xobjdump
xta.jar
xas
xfindlib.jar
xgprof
xmosupdate
xrun
xburn
xflash
xmake
xmosupdate.jar
xsim

[savoca]

xTIMEcomposer 14.4.1 seems to be working for me on x86_64 macOS 12.6.1. In addition to everything mentioned above, i did...

cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib
sudo ln -sf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Libraries/* .

Added
<string>-vm</string><string>/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java</string>
towards the end of: /Applications/XMOS_xTIMEcomposer_Community_14.4.1/xtimecomposer/Contents/Info.plist there are comments explaining where to place it

Added
-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
To the very end of: /Applications/XMOS_xTIMEcomposer_Community_14.4.1/xtimecomposer/Contents/MacOS/xtimecomposer.ini

Not sure if the last two were required.

[aclassifier]

savoca, welcome to the forum!

Thank you for the magic spelling! I will certainly do this! Although it may be 2023 before I will get to it!

With my knowledge of Unix/Linux/macOS then getting a rationale for each of your commands would have been really nice!

Øyvind

[aclassifier]

I guess it's ok to refer to this post here as well: xTimeComposer 14 not compatible Mac osx Ventura.

[aclassifier]

@savoca

I finally tried this, on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012) running Catalina 10.15.7. I did all the suggestions above, but I think I had to reinstall xTIMEcomposer 14.4.1 to be able to get the right-click xtimecomposer.app with "show contents of package" (from Norwegian) and then find the internal Contents directory.

Also, I was not able to run xtimecomposer.app but ran this:

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bash-3.2$ /Applications/XMOS_xTIMEcomposer_Community_14.4.1/*/xtimecomposer.app/Contents/MacOS/xtimecomposer 

The xTIMEcomposer's progress bar almost came to the very end, but when I had copy pasted my tools key it stops. It's 100% repeatable. I have tried to restart the machine.

Maybe the below log excerpts have been seen by anyone else? Here is the top of the Terminal window:

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Process:               xtimecomposer [1433]
Path:                  /Applications/XMOS_xTIMEcomposer_Community_14.4.1/*/xtimecomposer.app/Contents/MacOS/xtimecomposer
Identifier:            org.eclipse.eclipse
Version:               4.3 (4.3)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           xtimecomposer [1433]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2023-07-14 19:05:55.806 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15.7 (19H2026)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        qwe


Time Awake Since Boot: 450 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes:       KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000008
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process:   exc handler [1433]

VM Regions Near 0x8:

"qwe" is a placeholder for text removed by me. At the bottom of the crash log I found this:

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Thread 42:: JavaScriptCore bmalloc scavenger
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        	0x00007fff67586872 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fff6764b425 _pthread_cond_wait + 698
2   libc++.1.dylib                	0x00007fff6471b623 std::__1::condition_variable::__do_timed_wait(std::__1::unique_lock<std::__1::mutex>&, std::__1::chrono::time_point<std::__1::chrono::system_clock, std::__1::chrono::duration<long long, std::__1::ratio<1l, 1000000000l> > >) + 93
3   com.apple.JavaScriptCore      	0x00007fff32b3ca55 bmalloc::Scavenger::threadRunLoop() + 741
4   com.apple.JavaScriptCore      	0x00007fff32b3c469 bmalloc::Scavenger::threadEntryPoint(bmalloc::Scavenger*) + 9
5   com.apple.JavaScriptCore      	0x00007fff32b3eb47 void* std::__1::__thread_proxy<std::__1::tuple<std::__1::unique_ptr<std::__1::__thread_struct, std::__1::default_delete<std::__1::__thread_struct> >, void (*)(bmalloc::Scavenger*), bmalloc::Scavenger*> >(void*) + 39
6   libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fff6764b109 _pthread_start + 148
7   libsystem_pthread.dylib       	0x00007fff67646b8b thread_start + 15

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x00000007f8254ab8  rbx: 0x00000007f8254ab8  rcx: 0x00000007b82b4f20  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000106809000  rsi: 0x00000007b82b4f20  rbp: 0x00007ffeefbfc898  rsp: 0x00007ffeefbfc7d0
   r8: 0x0000000100706a10   r9: 0x00000000fffffffc  r10: 0x000000010642a140  r11: 0x00000001078adec0
  r12: 0x0000000000000000  r13: 0x00007ffeefbfc848  r14: 0x00007ffeefbfc8d0  r15: 0x0000000106809000
  rip: 0x0000000107895116  rfl: 0x0000000000010202  cr2: 0x0000000000000008
  
Logical CPU:     2
Error Code:      0x00000004 (no mapping for user data read)
Trap Number:     14