Hi Steve, thought I'd do a bit of digging to try and find out what could be causing the launch crash issues on MacOS.
Firstly, some system specs so you know what's going on:
macOS: Monterey 12.2
Model: MacBook Pro 13" 2020 M1
CPU/SoC: Apple M1
RAM: 8GB
From initially just pulling the JAR out of the app launcher and running it from the command line, I got the following error:
$ java -jar desktop-1.0.jar
MewnBase launch args:
[LWJGL] GLFW_PLATFORM_ERROR error
Description : Cocoa: Failed to find service port for display
Stacktrace :
org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwInit(GLFW.java:830)
com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.initializeGlfw(Lwjgl3Application.java:84)
com.badlogic.gdx.backends.lwjgl3.Lwjgl3Application.<init>(Lwjgl3Application.java:91)
com.cairn4.moonbase.desktop.DesktopLauncher.main(DesktopLauncher.java:62)
Now from what I can see, this seems to be related to GLFW in the current stable LibGDX build not supporting the Apple M series processors (Short StackOverflow thread)
I booted up a blank LibGDX project on my own Mac, LWJGL app config works fine, no issues. When I change it to LWJGL3 however, I run into the aforementioned crash since LWJGL3 now makes using of GLFW for interacting with the display/window stuff.
Now it seems the LibGDX 1.10.1 Snapshot fixes this (uses an updated version of GLFW) issue. I performed the following steps to get everything to work:
1. Set 'gdxVersion' to '1.10.1-SNAPSHOT' in my root build.gradle 2. Updated 'sourceCompatibility' to '1.8' in build.gradle in both my 'desktop' and 'core' folders 3. And then for just a regular debug run inside IntelliJ IDEA, I had to set '-XstartOnFirstThread' for the VM options in the desktopLauncher config. For running an actual compiled JAR, I had to run 'java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar ./desktop-1.0.jar'