Corona SDK now crashing on Snow Leopard and Lion

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#1

Corona SDK is now crashing on Snow Leopard (10.6) and Lion (10.7)…it was working on Snow Leopard before and I’m not sure what changed.

Does anyone know what’s going on?

Here is what I’ve tried, and hasn’t worked:

  • installing different builds (I’ve installed a half dozen various builds from 2011-2013)
  • installing on a different computer also running Snow Leopard
  • changing my password

It crashes right after the developer account login.

Here are the errors from the Corona Terminal:

 

2016-01-03 19:20:50.305 Corona Simulator[3776:903] Connection error: (system.connect) fault(/CFStreamFault)

2016-01-03 19:20:50.307 Corona Simulator[3776:903] Connection error: (system.connect) ({

    “/FaultCode” = “-65794”;

    “/FaultExtra” =     {

        domain = “-1”;

        error = “-65795”;

        msg = “HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden”;

    };

    “/FaultString” = “/CFStreamFault”;

    “/kWSHTTPResponseMessage” = “<CFHTTPMessage 0x590230>{url = http://developer.anscamobile.com/services/xmlrpc; status = HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden}”;

    “/kWSResultIsFault” = 1;

})

2016-01-03 19:20:50.473 Corona Simulator[3776:903] *** Assertion failure in -[NSTextFieldCell _objectValue:forString:errorDescription:], /SourceCache/AppKit/AppKit-1038.36/AppKit.subproj/NSCell.m:1531

2016-01-03 19:20:50.477 Corona Simulator[3776:903] Exception detected while handling key input.

2016-01-03 19:20:50.478 Corona Simulator[3776:903] Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil

/Applications/CoronaSDK/Corona Terminal: line 9:  3776 Bus error               “$path/Corona Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Corona Simulator” $*

logout

[Process completed]

Any insight?

#2

In the Apple eco-system they make enough breaking changes that we can only support the current version of OS X and one version back. For iOS, they let us support two versions back.

The result is you can use OS X Yosemite or OS X El Capitan with current versions of Corona SDK.  Apple restricts upload to iTunes connect to apps built with 64 bit code. This requirement happened last February for new apps and sometime early August for updates. Those apps require you to use at least the iOS 8 SDK (which has a requirement of using Xcode 6). I don’t know if Xcode 6 runs on Lion or Mountain Lion and I’m pretty certain it doesn’t run on Snow Leapord.  We’ve moved on to iOS 9.2 today which requires Xcode 7.2.

Because you can’t submit to Apple (their rules not ours) with older builds, you will need to update your operating system to 10.10 Yosemite or 10.11 El Capitan.

Rob

#3

yeah, ok, but fwiw, it appears the breaking change was on your end, not apple’s. your application crashes at sign in—it appears to me you changed something on your server with the log in code…the terminal error messages support that theory. my operating system didn’t change or update.

your system requirements would require me to buy a new computer…so you’ve lost a customer. i’m switching to unity.

#4

Sorry to hear about your issue but this is exactly the sort of thing that makes us move the support window as OS versions come out.  I can’t think of anything we might have changed to cause the errors you’re seeing so we’d have to find a computer, install the old OS and try to reproduce the problem all of which just isn’t cost effective.

I think you’ll find Unity requires 10.8 and above as well.

#5

In order for the Corona SDK to support building apps for iOS 9, it requires Xcode 7.

The minimum OS X version Xcode 7 supports is 10.10.5, which is Yosemite.

Therefore, the Corona SDK’s min OS X version it supports is Yosemite.

If you plan on creating iOS 9 apps, then you need to upgrade to Yosemite.  That requirement comes from Apple.  Switching to another 3rd party SDK such as Unity will not get around this.  So, if you don’t like this, then I think your complaint is really towards Apple and their “upgrade or die” policies and not us.

Meanwhile, the Windows version of the Corona SDK still supports Windows XP.  This is because Microsoft has a strong emphasis on backward compatibility which allows us to do the same.

Anyways, that’s my 2 cents.

Do what works best for you.

#6

In the Apple eco-system they make enough breaking changes that we can only support the current version of OS X and one version back. For iOS, they let us support two versions back.

The result is you can use OS X Yosemite or OS X El Capitan with current versions of Corona SDK.  Apple restricts upload to iTunes connect to apps built with 64 bit code. This requirement happened last February for new apps and sometime early August for updates. Those apps require you to use at least the iOS 8 SDK (which has a requirement of using Xcode 6). I don’t know if Xcode 6 runs on Lion or Mountain Lion and I’m pretty certain it doesn’t run on Snow Leapord.  We’ve moved on to iOS 9.2 today which requires Xcode 7.2.

Because you can’t submit to Apple (their rules not ours) with older builds, you will need to update your operating system to 10.10 Yosemite or 10.11 El Capitan.

Rob

#7

yeah, ok, but fwiw, it appears the breaking change was on your end, not apple’s. your application crashes at sign in—it appears to me you changed something on your server with the log in code…the terminal error messages support that theory. my operating system didn’t change or update.

your system requirements would require me to buy a new computer…so you’ve lost a customer. i’m switching to unity.

#8

Sorry to hear about your issue but this is exactly the sort of thing that makes us move the support window as OS versions come out.  I can’t think of anything we might have changed to cause the errors you’re seeing so we’d have to find a computer, install the old OS and try to reproduce the problem all of which just isn’t cost effective.

I think you’ll find Unity requires 10.8 and above as well.

#9

In order for the Corona SDK to support building apps for iOS 9, it requires Xcode 7.

The minimum OS X version Xcode 7 supports is 10.10.5, which is Yosemite.

Therefore, the Corona SDK’s min OS X version it supports is Yosemite.

If you plan on creating iOS 9 apps, then you need to upgrade to Yosemite.  That requirement comes from Apple.  Switching to another 3rd party SDK such as Unity will not get around this.  So, if you don’t like this, then I think your complaint is really towards Apple and their “upgrade or die” policies and not us.

Meanwhile, the Windows version of the Corona SDK still supports Windows XP.  This is because Microsoft has a strong emphasis on backward compatibility which allows us to do the same.

Anyways, that’s my 2 cents.

Do what works best for you.