I assume Kicad was built for Mac OS X 13.0 but without backward compatibility flags.
Guys, I have iMac Retina 27", Apple doesn’t make those beauties anymore so I stuck on Big Sur. Could you please provide some backward compatibility.
Crash report
Process: kicad [38830]
Path: /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/MacOS/kicad
Identifier: org.kicad.kicad
Version: 8.0.4 (8.0.4)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: kicad [38830]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2024-08-10 22:57:55.028 -0400
OS Version: macOS 11.7.10 (20G1427)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: ED0FBF6C-DE38-359A-8E16-99C57BAB1A7D
Sleep/Wake UUID: FB8836AE-FD22-4EF5-A8F3-B91C3E1470F3
Time Awake Since Boot: 330000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 13000 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x4] Symbol missing
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: __ZNKSt3__115basic_stringbufIcNS_11char_traitsIcEENS_9allocatorIcEEE3strEv
Referenced from: /Applications/KiCad/KiCad.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/libboost_locale-mt.dylib (which was built for Mac OS X 13.0)
Expected in: /usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib
Binary Images:
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