Can't use projucer at all on M1 Big Sur MacBook

[observantsound]

2nd time I'm trying to get Hise to work on my MacBook.

1st time I followed David Healeys instruction video by downloading release 2.0.
Back then I could open projucer but the project would build with tons of errors and warnings.
Asked in the forum and was told that I needed to download the current build and not the last stable one.

Ok, tried that and now I can't even open projucer.

• Current build download: "projucer is damaged and can not be opened"
• 2.0 build download: "you do not have permission to open this file"
  Hise.pkg: Sure... it installs, but I have no idea what to do afterwards since none of the tutorials talk about the pkg installer.

What do I need to do to get this to work on my MacBook?

I'm willing to learn but this is all very new to me and without the proper, up-to-date tutorials I have no idea what I need to do.....

[d.healey]

@observantsound said in Can't use projucer at all on M1 Big Sur MacBook:

Current build download: "projucer is damaged and can not be opened"

You need a working Projucer. After that you'll need to open the HISE Standalone .jucer file in Projucer and make sure the architecture is set to x86_64 and disable IPP and remove any related paths.

You could try downloading Projucer from the JUCE site, that's worked for others - https://forum.hise.audio/topic/3666/default-hise-projucer-not-opening-damaged-on-mac

But the one that comes with HISE should work, and it works on my system. You can also build Projucer from source, the source code is included with HISE, although I don't know if it's configured correctly for M1.

[DanH]

@d-healey I built the HISE Standalone.jucer app in XCode from the xcode project file in the build folder.

It's a permissions issue and this gets around it nicely

[crd]

Or just use the terminal command "xattr -cr" which is as easy as opening terminal typing "xattr -cr" and then dragging the file that is giving you that error message.

[Matt_SF]

@observantsound

Current build download: "projucer is damaged and can not be opened"

Happened to me one, IIRC I just had to download the HISE project folder from github again. Maybe the file was corrupted.
Or use git to manage HISE source files
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[ulrik]

@crd said in Can't use projucer at all on M1 Big Sur MacBook:

Or just use the terminal command "xattr -cr" which is as easy as opening terminal typing "xattr -cr" and then dragging the file that is giving you that error message.

I have this problem every time I've updated the develop branch to next commit, and what @crd says this works always, however I'm not on M1 processor

 terminal command "xattr -cr" + path to projucer

[observantsound]

apologies for the late reply. I wasn't getting email notifications and thought no one answered.

I'll try some of your suggestions.

@d-healey That was the jucer file from the git folder --> tools.
Opening it immediately gave me this error so I coudln't even make any changes to settings. And this happened with the current build only.
The last stable 2.0 gives me the permission error.
But what I've learned from my last attempt is that I HAVE to use the current build or the build will not compile.

@DanH Could you elaborate on that process? I'm very new to coding except for KSP and all this building and Xcode stuff just isn't an issue there.

@crd Thanks for the tip. I'll try that!

@Matt_SF I've tried downloading it several times and it was always damaged.
It might be because of my last attempt and there are still installation files flying around that are causing issues? Any way to make sure I've everything regarding juce and Hise removed before trying again?

A more general question:
Do you absolutely need the JUCER stuff to start working on an instrument? Or is its job only to build and compile an executable app?

[d.healey]

@observantsound said in Can't use projucer at all on M1 Big Sur MacBook:

That was the jucer file from the git folder --> tools.

.jucer is a file extension. This refers to a JUCE project file that can be opened in Projucer, which is an application.

You need to open the HISE .jucer file (projects/standalone/HISE Standalone.jucer) with the Projucer application (tools/projucer/Projucer).

@observantsound said in Can't use projucer at all on M1 Big Sur MacBook:

Opening it immediately gave me this error so I coudln't even make any changes to settings. And this happened with the current build only.

This sounds like the permission error with solution posted above. terminal command "xattr -cr" + path to projucer

@observantsound said in Can't use projucer at all on M1 Big Sur MacBook:

But what I've learned from my last attempt is that I HAVE to use the current build or the build will not compile.

Correct. M1 didn't exist in 2018 and so JUCE from that time doesn't support it.

@observantsound said in Can't use projucer at all on M1 Big Sur MacBook:

Do you absolutely need the JUCER stuff to start working on an instrument? Or is its job only to build and compile an executable app?

Projucer is used to manage JUCE projects. HISE itself is a JUCE project so in order to build HISE you need to use Projucer. Once you have HISE up and running you don't need to worry about Projucer until you want to export and compile your project, then it's pretty much the same process as compiling HISE.

[observantsound]

@d-healey Thanks for the clarification on my last question.

The terminal command worked in getting it to open. Even though the error was "application is damaged and should be put into bin" instead of "permission denied"

Another general question:
When I open these apps and files I often get asked about additional stuff needed or updates being available. Should I always ignore these? Stick to the stuff the way it came with the Git repo?
Will it break stuff if I update?
That might also have been why it didn't work last time I tried this.

[d.healey]

@observantsound Yes click ignore

[ForeverLive]

@d-healey thank you, that just helped me too.