# Exporting application Crashes on Mac Big Sug 11.4

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**Created:** [July 12, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202 "2021-07-12T09:09:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![manu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/manu/32/6255_2.png) [@manu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/manu)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/1 "2021-07-12T09:09:40Z")

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Hi Everyone!

I am in a bit of a bind and wanted to see if anyone else ran into this problem.

When I publish sketches from processing (3.4 or Alpha) as exported applications, the process goes ok. But when I try and open the new application on my Macbook, the application quits immediately.

I’ve looked into a few a things already:

1. The sketch runs fine, so I know it’s not a frameRate issue
2. I have not notarized the sketch via the new apple system (is this a must?), but I’ve read a few threads about it.
3. This is from the error log for apple:

Application Specific Information:  
BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Assertion failed: Block was expected to execute on queue [com.apple.main-thread]  
abort() called

1. This is the error that I see when I right click the application → go to contents → mac folder → double click/try and run the application (this log appears in terminal)

# 

# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

# 

# SIGILL (0x4) at pc=0x00007fff2018e25d, pid=12439, tid=18947

# 

# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK-11.0.11+9 (11.0.11+9) (build 11.0.11+9)

# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM AdoptOpenJDK-11.0.11+9 (11.0.11+9, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, bsd-amd64)

# Problematic frame:

# C [libdispatch.dylib+0x525d] \_dispatch\_assert\_queue\_fail+0x63

# 

# No core dump will be written. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try “ulimit -c unlimited” before starting Java again

Any suggestions?

Thanks for taking a the time to review!

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**Author:** ![josephh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/josephh/32/210_2.png) [@josephh](https://discourse.processing.org/u/josephh)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/2 "2021-07-12T15:34:07Z")

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Hi @manu,

Simple question but did you try to execute the command stated in the error ? :

```auto
ulimit -c unlimited

```

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28982396/failed-to-write-core-dump-core-dumps-have-been-disabled>

It should solve the problem.

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**Author:** ![PhilHaw](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/philhaw/32/8221_2.png) [@PhilHaw](https://discourse.processing.org/u/PhilHaw)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/3 "2021-07-12T16:27:39Z")

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Did you export with java embedded? I find this is more likely to work than if you don’t embed java.

Having said that, I only have experience with macOS Catalina (and Windows 10 🙂)

Phil.

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**Author:** ![manu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/manu/32/6255_2.png) [@manu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/manu)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/4 "2021-07-13T08:28:11Z")

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Thanks for the tip @josephh . (great reminder to start with the simple and straight forward things) : I tried the ulimit -c unlimited, the file increase, but the application still crashes on play/opening.

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**Author:** ![manu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/manu/32/6255_2.png) [@manu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/manu)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/5 "2021-07-13T08:28:42Z")

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@PhilHaw , Yup tried the Java Embed as well.

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**Author:** ![manu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/manu/32/6255_2.png) [@manu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/manu)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/6 "2021-07-13T08:30:00Z")

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OK now seeing if it’s an issue with my version of java (13.0.1) … using homebrew to manage a version of java 8 and see if that helps…

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**Author:** ![manu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/manu/32/6255_2.png) [@manu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/manu)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/7 "2021-07-14T08:23:57Z")

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Update:

I had to abandon attempting the different java versions for now or solving this issue – I need to spend a little bit more time updating my mac-book to do further testing…

My short term solution for now: use Mac’s Automator to build an “application” that opens terminal and runs processing-java to call the sketch:

- For presentation purposes I used fullScreen(); instead of calling presentation so I can deactivate the cursor
- Second : if I moved the processing application on Mac, I’ll need to reinstall the processing-java tools

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**Author:** ![philipplehmann](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/philipplehmann/32/4111_2.png) [@philipplehmann](https://discourse.processing.org/u/philipplehmann)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/8 "2021-08-12T07:33:41Z")

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Hi Manu

Did you have any further luck? I’m trying to build a functional MacOS App out of a P3D sketch.  
Would you mind sharing your Automator action/app?

Best Philipp

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**Author:** ![manu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/manu/32/6255_2.png) [@manu](https://discourse.processing.org/u/manu)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/9 "2021-08-14T20:51:24Z")

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Hi @philipplehmann , luck: yes and no.

Pre-script work:  
Make sure to install Processing-Java - it’s in the processing IDE, under tools.  
Once that’s done, you’ll need to find the file path to file you need to launch.  
This is the reference I used for the commands: [link](https://www.dsfcode.com/using-processing-via-the-command-line/). this took me a while to get right.

NOTE: if you move your PDE file, the script won’t work…and you’ll need update the PDE file path.

Now to the automator script…

- First I wrote a simple bash script saved to run the PDE application (with processing-java):  
Because the new Mac Book used Zsh, I used this [guide](https://wpbeaches.com/make-an-alias-in-bash-or-zsh-shell-in-macos-with-terminal/) to create an alias of the processing java command, and called it something like custom\_bash\_script ( in reality it’s much shorter and something like arton).

- Make sure to test the script in terminal before moving onto the next bulleted item.

- Then I used this apple script as reference: [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23975239/applescript-to-open-terminal-run-command-and-show-not-working)  
My apple script went something like this…

```auto
   tell application "Terminal"
      do script "custom_bash_script "

```

The script above was put into a automator workflow… [see reference here](https://support.apple.com/guide/automator/welcome/mac)

then…

- Under system preferences; users – I made login in automatic and under login items, I added my automator workflow (so it launches when the computer turns on)

Lastly, because I wanted to control the computer turning on and off every day on it’s own, I bought the software [Mac Power Manager](https://www.dssw.co.uk/powermanager/).

I guess I could have written a bash script for this too, but I wanted to make this as easy as possible to change later, by myself or others.

Sorry I didn’t share my exact app, as I created directly on the mac that’s now at the gallery… Nonetheless, I hope this helps and happy to answer more in depth questions.

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**Author:** ![philipplehmann](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/philipplehmann/32/4111_2.png) [@philipplehmann](https://discourse.processing.org/u/philipplehmann)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/exporting-application-crashes-on-mac-big-sug-11-4/31202/10 "2021-08-16T06:08:02Z")

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Thanks for writing all these instructions 👍  
I’ll give it a go.