Error at launch on 10.5.8: `No fonts for ISO-10646-UCS-4`

[barracuda156]

I tried to build the app on 10.5 (with minor extra tweaks), and it fails at launch with this:

I guess 10.5 was not tested, and I am not sure Cocoa is properly fixable for it, but if this is something trivial, it would be nice to have it working.
X11 will probably work fine, but requires a lot of dependencies.

[Matias314]

It seems that it's looking for some Menlo font that is absent on 10.5?

PMG5:~matias$ cat ~/.mlterm/msg.log
Aug  5 02:57:06[34273] WARN: Menlo font is not found.
Aug  5 02:57:11[34276] WARN: Menlo font is not found.
Aug  5 02:57:26[34279] WARN: Menlo font is not found.

Creating a ~/.mlterm/font file and specifying an existing font like Monaco (I found an example here: https://gist.github.com/saitoha/3377f59b0bf87882f319#file-font) appears to get rid of the error but unfortunately it stops responding and never opens for me so it is probably something nontrivial.

[barracuda156]

@Matias314 Thank you! I will try that.

but unfortunately it stops responding and never opens for me so it is probably something nontrivial.

Possibly this hack is wrong: https://github.com/macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports/blob/5e51a40716c17584eddc3015abf96982c622324b/x11/mlterm/files/0003-Provisional-support-for-10.5-with-Cocoa.patch

10.6 (powerpc included) uses libdispatch codepath, which works fine. For 10.5 some replacement is needed.

[barracuda156]

@Matias314 Nah, it’s probably something else. I can reproduce the same behavior on 10.5 after creating font config file, and neither crash log nor launching via GDB look any helpful :(

[barracuda156]

@Matias314 Good news is that SDL2 version works fine, and our SDL2 by default uses Cocoa. Bare minimal version keeps complaining about ISO font for some reason, full version works fine. So I just need to find out to what extent it can be minimized. Other than that it looks neat and does not require X server. Sixel graphics works normally. Probably we can watch FHD vids right in the terminal LOL

[Matias314]

That's awesome, thank you!!

[barracuda156]

Not really minimal, but this seems to work now: macos-powerpc/powerpc-ports@70a7e4d
Only relevant for mlterm-minimal subport; the regular version should have worked on 10.5, if built with +sdl2.

P. S. In principle, SDL2 backend may even work on 10.4; I think modules which are disabled in 10.4 are irrelevant for this. Someone has to try.