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@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzI'd make it opt in11:57:41
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzbut also it's seldom needed on macOS11:57:46
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorailI'm thinking having a nix store in /Applications/MyApp.app is rather acceptable.11:57:47
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzapps are supposed to access app-bundle files using the OS APIs11:57:59
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorznot by directly accessing file paths11:58:04
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorailThe downside is that the user needs to copy it there, which AFAIU is typical anyway.11:58:06
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzso having a hardcoded nix store path that is not a dynamic library in a macOS app is pretty rare anyway, even for apps in nixpkgs11:58:49
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorailWhat do you mean? If you, say, generate a script it's rather easy to have path hardcoded.11:59:42
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorail* What do you mean? If you, say, generate a script it's rather easy to have paths hardcoded.11:59:48
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzfor wrapper scripts? that's a special case I definitely want to handle soon-ish12:00:13
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorail So, you do the rpath thing, which is kinda nice. I was thinking it should be the default on Linux as well, but the problem is that you can't use $ORIGIN for the loader (i.e., PT_INTERP). I guess on mac you don't have the same problem since you don't distribute the libc. Correct? 12:01:52
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzIndeed, all macOS apps have to use the system libc12:02:18
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzthat's also why we can't do fully static binaries on macOS12:02:26
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorailbtw, I appreciate your effort, but this thing was much more easy to understand if it was written in bash :D12:03:37
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorail* btw, I appreciate your effort, but this thing would have been much easier to understand if it was written in bash :D12:03:49
@reckenrode:matrix.orgRandy EckenrodeSo if we can figure out the URL, it might be possible to package it?12:04:10
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorailmaybe it's just the fact that I'm a rust noob12:04:15
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzI'm not writing a mach parser in bash ⚰️12:04:17
@bake.monorail:matrix.orgbake.monorailllvm-readobj not enough?12:04:39
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorz well for this particularly usecase otool -L would have done the job 12:06:01
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzbut also I wouldn't want to port the recursive copy algorithm in bash12:06:14
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzgenerally not being able to read the bash mess that was nix-bundle-macos is the reason I wrote this in Rust in the first place12:06:40
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorz* but also I wouldn't want to port the recursive copy algorithm to bash12:06:53
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorz maybe 👀 12:07:56
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzbut it could be that it just re-uses the Xcode login session12:08:06
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzah rip that is directly linking to moltenvk and not using vulkan-loader12:17:50
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzgrafik.png
Download grafik.png
12:26:14
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzhehe, almost12:26:14
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorzah well12:26:53
@niklaskorz:matrix.orgniklaskorz
12:25:46.000Z ERROR [tiny_glade::run_game] [frame:0] Device "Apple M3 Pro" init error:
DeviceCreateError(
    UnsupportedExtensions {
        extensions: [
            "VK_KHR_portability_subset",
        ],
    },
)
12:26:56

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