macos build "error" (no 'plugins' directory), yet build succeeded

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Hi, Getting a build error when building for macOS (from Version 2026.3729 (2026.3.9) on macOS)

Note that the app is still built, and runs fine!

This was a reportedly fixed problem about 8 years ago. At that time, the workaround was to not reference “display.*” in config.lua. Well, my config.lua has one line:
application = { content = { scale = “none” } }

thanks.

Building: Copying application assets
                    Building: Copying changed app resources
                    Building: Processing plugins
May 05 13:08:18.050 ERROR: build command failed: cp -Rv "/var/folders/g0/zrz2f0yn38b83jz6q3yx63zm0000gq/T/CLtmpCZrcMX-plugins"/* "/Users/sieler/Desktop/test_dev.app/Contents/Plugins"
May 05 13:08:18.050 ERROR: with exit code 1 and output: 
May 05 13:08:18.050 
May 05 13:08:18.209 cp: /var/folders/g0/zrz2f0yn38b83jz6q3yx63zm0000gq/T/CLtmpCZrcMX-plugins/*: No such file or directory
                    Building: Cleaning up
                    macOS build succeeded in 1 seconds

Note that the named source directory does exist, although it’s empty. The named target directory does not exist, and gets deleted by the build attempt if I create it first.

(This exposed a bug/flaw in the build process, which is that no one locks access to the console log for the duration of reporting an error. Thus, if thread 1 wants to report a two line message (“ERROR:…” and the directory names), while thread 2 wants to report the result of, say, copying a .icns file, you can get the thread 2 message in between the two lines of the thread 1 message pair … fairly reliably, too :slight_smile: