Ardour 6.5 will not run on 10.6.8 (32 bit version)

[bwoods]

Hi. I downloaded the 32 bit version for my 32 bit Intel iMac, but when I try to launch the program it says there is a problem and it will not open. “Check with the developer to make sure Ardour6 works with this version of MacOSX.” I would try an older version but those are not available, so I am stuck.

[paul (Paul Davis)]

What is the precise message (all of it) ?

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

Found (and understood) the issue.

Until we can fix this, you can use the debug version from https://nightly.ardour.org/ that will run.

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The problem is that we strip libplds4.dylib when packaging the optimized build. This leads to

dyld: Symbol not found: _PL_CompareValues
  Referenced from: /Volumes/Ardour-6.5.86/Ardour6.app/Contents/MacOS/../lib/libnssutil3.dylib
  Expected in: /Volumes/Ardour-6.5.86/Ardour6.app/Contents/MacOS/../lib/libplds4.dylib
 in /Volumes/Ardour-6.5.86/Ardour6.app/Contents/MacOS/../lib/libnssutil3.dylib

Oddly enough only the 32bit build is affected by this.

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

@bwoods You can get a fixed version of Ardour 6 for 32bit Intel Mac here:

• https://community.ardour.org/files/Ardour-6.5.89-i386.dmg

I’m sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for bringing this issue to our attention.