HISE crashes when loading my project

[Oli Ullmann]

@Christoph-Hart
I created a completely new project again, but unfortunately it still crashes. Here is the error report:

Last login: Tue Jan 20 09:35:36 on ttys000
/Users/mou/Documents/HISE\ Projects/newTest/Binaries/batchCompileOSX ; exit;
mou@Marks-Mac-Pro ~ % /Users/mou/Documents/HISE\ Projects/newTest/Binaries/batchCompileOSX ; exit;
Re-saving file: /Users/mou/Documents/HISE Projects/newTest/Binaries/AutogeneratedProject.jucer
Finished saving: Visual Studio 2017
Finished saving: Xcode (macOS)
Finished saving: Xcode (iOS)
Finished saving: Linux Makefile
Compiling Instrument plugin newTest ...

----- xcbeautify -----
Version: 2.28.0
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2026-01-20 11:41:01.534 xcodebuild[2378:93646] DVTCoreDeviceEnabledState: DVTCoreDeviceEnabledState_Disabled set via user default (DVTEnableCoreDevice=disabled)
2026-01-20 11:41:02.291 xcodebuild[2378:93646] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 874. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
2026-01-20 11:41:02.291 xcodebuild[2378:93646] Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "JSON text did not start with array or object and option to allow fragments not set. around line 1, column 0." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=JSON text did not start with array or object and option to allow fragments not set. around line 1, column 0., NSJSONSerializationErrorIndex=0}
2026-01-20 11:41:02.293 xcodebuild[2378:93646] Writing error result bundle to /var/folders/qx/0_mrj8z91hd2gj5y61xxknvw0000gn/T/ResultBundle_2026-20-01_11-41-0002.xcresult
xcodebuild: error: Unable to read project 'newTest.xcodeproj' from folder '/Users/mou/Documents/HISE Projects/newTest/Binaries/Builds/MacOSX'.
	Reason: The project ‘newTest’ is damaged and cannot be opened due to a parse error. Examine the project file for invalid edits or unresolved source control conflicts.

Path: /Users/mou/Documents/HISE Projects/newTest/Binaries/Builds/MacOSX/newTest.xcodeproj



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[Christoph Hart]

Yeah, that looks like something's off on your machine, the CI build is OK and compiles the test project on macOS.

Try pasting the compiler output into ChatGPT, it gives you a list of things to check. Whether this solves it or not, I don't know, could be anything from a weird project name to an invalid developer certificate.

[Oli Ullmann]

@Christoph-Hart

All right, thank you very much. I'll start looking into it. :-)
Compiling has always worked so far, and I haven't changed anything in the system. I'll give you feedback when I find the error.

[Oli Ullmann]

@Christoph-Hart
Okay, I always create a backup of the last working HISE version before compiling a new one. This one still works! Unfortunately, the commit is not displayed in HISE, but since I compiled it on December 21, 2025, I assume it is commit 6ba56cc. That is the last one that works for me.

Could it be that my xCode version is too old for the current HISE version?
I am working with xCode version 14.3.1 (14E300c).

[David Healey]

@Oli-Ullmann said in HISE crashes when loading my project:

I assume it is commit 6ba56cc.

Compile it and see ;)

[Oli Ullmann]

@David-Healey
Okay, I cloned HISE again with git clone https://github.com/christophhart/HISE.git then switched to the corresponding commit with git reset --hard 6ba56cc and recompiled HISE. (I used git clone without the new commands because I don't need the JUCE 8 elements for the old commit.)

HISE still does not show me any commit information. When I enter git commit in the console, I only see the following text: Your branch is behind 'origin/develop' by 80 commits.

Maybe this is because Christoph created an initial commit on January 8.

Anyway, everything works with the commit 6ba56cc. With later commits, I can no longer compile plug-ins from HISE. I have no idea why this is and can only assume that it might be due to my xCode version. Because the xCode projects created with the current HISE version cannot be opened with xCode.

So maybe I should update it. Which xCode version are you using, Dave?

[David Healey]

@Oli-Ullmann I'm not sure which one I'm using at the moment, just try the latest one supported by your OS version: https://xcodereleases.com/

[Oli Ullmann]

@David-Healey
I'll do that.

[Christoph Hart]

@Oli-Ullmann Ah damn it, that was on me. There was a small typo in the DLL template that creates the Projucer file which messed up the Xcode project generation. The CI didn't catch it because it exports a standalone version of the demo project...

It's fixed now, let me know if you have other issues on macOS.

[Oli Ullmann]

@Christoph-Hart
I tested it and both the compilation of a VST instrument and the compilation of DSP networks work perfectly. Thank you very much! :-) I will test the compilation of an AU instrument in the next few days and give feedback.

There is another bug:
When I want to create a new project and that project already exists in the folder where I want to create the project, HISE simply crashes without an error message.