I would like to run an app which nominally supports only MacOS 14.0 and above. I am on 12.7.3, and apple won’t allow me to update because my computer is too old. However, I know that the app actually can run on my machine because when I run the executable in the app package (game.app > Contents > MacOS > game
), it works just fine. Unfortunately, I need to be able to run the app itself because I need to run it through Steam to get networking functionality.
Running the app through the command line with open game.app
gives me the following error:
The application cannot be opened for an unexpected reason, error=Error
Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-10825 "kLSIncompatibleSystemVersionErr: The
app cannot run on the current OS version" UserInfo={_LSLine=3863,
_LSFunction=_LSOpenStuffCallLocal}
I have tried editing the info.plist
but there is no tag that seems to specify a minimum system version.
Is there anything in the app contents that I might be able to change to override this error? Or some kind of flag I can use to override it when running it from the terminal?
(Bonus: does anyone know how to make Steam open the app through the executable? This would also solve my problem.)
The Info.plist file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
<string>en</string>
<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>PA</string>
<key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
<string>Planetary Annihilation Copyright ©2012-2021 Planetary Annihilation Inc. All rights reserved.</string>
<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
<string>PA</string>
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
<string>com.planetaryannihilation.pa.client</string>
<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
<string>6.0</string>
<key>CFBundleName</key>
<string>Planetary Annihilation</string>
<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
<string>APPL</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>1.0.0</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>1.0.0</string>
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public.app-category.strategy-games</string>
<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>None</string>
<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
<string>com.planetaryannihilation.pa.client</string>
<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>startpa</string>
</array>
</dict>
</array>
<key>NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance</key>
<true/>
<key>NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription</key>
<string>LAN games</string>
</dict>
</plist>
The output of otool -l
on the executable
[...]
Load command 10
cmd LC_UUID
cmdsize 24
uuid 840729FE-68BA-36B3-BB9D-FFDF2C89D86C
Load command 11
cmd LC_BUILD_VERSION
cmdsize 32
platform 1
minos 14.1
sdk 14.2
ntools 1
tool 3
version 1022.1
Load command 12
cmd LC_SOURCE_VERSION
cmdsize 16
version 0.0
Load command 13
cmd LC_MAIN
cmdsize 24
entryoff 5980032
stacksize 0
[...]