Hey! When I’m running VCV Rack normally its all fine, however when I am trying to run it in debug mode using ./Rack -d I get the error message:
Rack's resource directory "/Applications/VCV Rack 2 Free.app/Contents/MacOS/res" does not exist. Make sure Rack is correctly installed and launched.
When I do lldb ./Rack followed by run -d I get:
Process 89101 launched: '/Applications/VCV Rack 2 Free.app/Contents/MacOS/Rack' (x86_64)
[0.000 info adapters/standalone.cpp:152 main] VCV Rack Free 2.2.3 macOS x64
[0.000 info adapters/standalone.cpp:153 main] Mac 12.3
[0.000 info adapters/standalone.cpp:159 main] Args: /Applications/VCV Rack 2 Free.app/Contents/MacOS/Rack -d
[0.000 info adapters/standalone.cpp:161 main] Development mode
[0.000 info adapters/standalone.cpp:162 main] System directory: /Applications/VCV Rack 2 Free.app/Contents/MacOS
[0.000 info adapters/standalone.cpp:163 main] User directory: /Applications/VCV Rack 2 Free.app/Contents/MacOS
[0.000 info adapters/standalone.cpp:165 main] Bundle path:
[0.001 info adapters/standalone.cpp:167 main] System time: 2023-02-16 22:58:20 +0100
[0.001 info src/settings.cpp:501 load] Loading settings /Applications/VCV Rack 2 Free.app/Contents/MacOS/settings.json
Interestingly when I give it its system and user folder:
./Rack -s ../Resources -u ~/Documents/Rack2/ -d
it will run but none of the plugins work and I get the following debug messages for each of them:
Could not load plugin /Users/nls/Documents/Rack2/plugins/Bogaudio: Failed to load library /Users/nls/Documents/Rack2/plugins/Bogaudio/plugin.dylib: dlopen(/Users/nls/Documents/Rack2/plugins/Bogaudio/plugin.dylib, 0x0006): Library not loaded: /tmp/Rack2/libRack.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/nls/Documents/Rack2/plugins/Bogaudio/plugin.dylib
Reason: tried: '/tmp/Rack2/libRack.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libRack.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libRack.dylib' (no such file)
I only have an idea of the second one. I’m on macOS 10.12.6, and a while ago in another thread it came up that Rack makes a symbolic link /tmp/Rack2/libRack.dylib when it starts. Some others had that link on their machines but I don’t, like you don’t either. I never run Rack from the command line though and my Rack otherwise runs just fine.
But the same error still persists. Another thing I tried was to copy libRack.dylib to /usr/local/lib/ just to see if that fixes anything and initial error disappears but now it crashes when trying to load the preview to any plugin.
[4.462 info src/app/Browser.cpp:200 createPreview] Creating module widget np waveset-synth
2023-02-17 12:43:56.688008+0100 Rack[94794:1473125] dynamic_cast error 2: One or more of the following type_info's has hidden visibility or is defined in more than one translation unit. They should all have public visibility. N4rack6widget6WidgetE, 19Waveset_synthWidget, N4rack3app10PortWidgetE.
2023-02-17 12:43:56.688025+0100 Rack[94794:1473125] dynamic_cast error 2: One or more of the following type_info's has hidden visibility or is defined in more than one translation unit. They should all have public visibility. N4rack6widget6WidgetE, N4rack3app11PanelBorderE, N4rack3app10PortWidgetE.
2023-02-17 12:43:56.688034+0100 Rack[94794:1473125] dynamic_cast error 2: One or more of the following type_info's has hidden visibility or is defined in more than one translation unit. They should all have public visibility. N4rack6widget6WidgetE, N4rack16componentlibrary11ScrewSilverE, N4rack3app10PortWidgetE.
2023-02-17 12:43:56.688041+0100 Rack[94794:1473125] dynamic_cast error 2: One or more of the following type_info's has hidden visibility or is defined in more than one translation unit. They should all have public visibility. N4rack6widget6WidgetE, N4rack16componentlibrary11ScrewSilverE, N4rack3app10PortWidgetE.
2023-02-17 12:43:56.688066+0100 Rack[94794:1473125] dynamic_cast error 2: One or more of the following type_info's has hidden visibility or is defined in more than one translation unit. They should all have public visibility. N4rack6widget6WidgetE, N4rack6widget15TransformWidgetE, N4rack3app10PortWidgetE.
2023-02-17 12:43:56.688081+0100 Rack[94794:1473125] dynamic_cast error 2: One or more of the following type_info's has hidden visibility or is defined in more than one translation unit. They should all have public visibility. N4rack6widget6WidgetE, N4rack16componentlibrary11ScrewSilverE, N4rack3app10PortWidgetE.
2023-02-17 12:43:56.688093+0100 Rack[94794:1473125] dynamic_cast error 2: One or more of the following type_info's has hidden visibility or is defined in more than one translation unit. They should all have public visibility. N4rack6widget6WidgetE, N4rack16componentlibrary14RoundBlackKnobE, N4rack3app10PortWidgetE.
Assertion failed: (threadContext), function contextGet, file context.cpp, line 51.
libRack.dylib was compiled with optimization - stepping may behave oddly; variables may not be available.
Process 94794 stopped
* thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = hit program assert
frame #4: 0x0000000119119ea1 libRack.dylib`rack::contextGet() (.cold.1) at context.cpp:51:2 [opt]
48 static thread_local Context* threadContext = NULL;
49
50 Context* contextGet() {
-> 51 assert(threadContext);
52 return threadContext;
53 }
54
Target 0: (Rack) stopped.
Also building from source or reinstalling Rack doesn’t help. My overall goal is just to get some error and debugging messages when I’m running a custom plugin I’m building. Maybe there is another way?