No longer working at macOS 10.15

[lanezhao]

Great software. I have used it for many years. Hopefully it can be upgraded to run in macOS 10.15. Thanks!

[KashifZA]

Worried about the same thing as we approach the release of 10.15

[KashifZA]

Found a blog post mentioning how to recompile on your own machine to make it 64bit..

http://heardofaudio.com/musings/blog/files/7ba3a4c9c2e9bd496ed23817bf3249ea-28.php

[KashifZA]

The following changes need to be made made for each of the framework dependencies to compile vs 64bit.
For each of the following, change the dependencies from
"ARCHS = $(ARCHS_STANDARD_32_64_BIT)" to "ARCHS = $(ARCHS_STANDARD_64_BIT)"

1. PSMTabBarControl - xcconfigs/Base.xcconfig
2. chm_lib - chm_lib.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
3. ichm - ichm.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

Note the linker change and macOS release target change of the ichm which is mentioned is done in the same file.

[vszakats]

Important to clone ichm sources with their submodules:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/NSGod/ichm

[TaiPhamD]

I just recently build this for catalina and it works great.
I had to do brew install openssl libxml2 and update the xcode project to link those 2 libs or else it will error out

[NSGod]

Just a quick note. Up until now, I haven't had a Mac capable of running anything beyond High Sierra (10.13). I recently acquired a new (used) Mac and have Mojave (10.14), Catalina (10.15), and Big Sur (11.x) installed, so I'll be able to look into these open issues when I get a chance.

[windowswithoutborders]

There are a lot of valuable and informative chm documents out there so I look forward to seeing this updated for modern machines!

[bucanero]

For those who might want to avoid the mess of rebuilding this app from sources, I have rebuilt iChm using the latest XCode 13.1 on macOS Monterey. (Target was set to macOS 10.9). Compiling it was a bit painful, many fixes to list/remember to get XCode 13.1 to build without complaining.
Binaries should work with Intel/M1 macs but I didn't test it beyond my own Macbook.

Binaries:

• iChm_local.zip built with no signing for local run
• iChm_sign.zip built and signed with personal development signing cert

I hope it helps!

Note: Depending on your security settings your Mac might refuse to run it, so you might need to remove the quarantine flags.

[delook]

Thank you for your effort, bucanero.
And sorry my newbie question: I installed ichm in a sandbox but it don't want to open my chm files?
macos 10.15.7

[bucanero]

Thank you for your effort, bucanero. And sorry my newbie question: I installed ichm in a sandbox but it don't want to open my chm files? macos 10.15.7

I can't really say, I tried it with one big chm file (over 200 Mb) and it worked just fine. I suggest trying with a few other chm files to see if it's a specific issue with that file, or not. Perhaps it has some format compatibility issue.

[lanezhao]

Thank you so much @bucanero

[txl263]

For those who might want to avoid the mess of rebuilding this app from sources, I have rebuilt iChm using the latest XCode 13.1 on macOS Monterey. (Target was set to macOS 10.9). Compiling it was a bit painful, many fixes to list/remember to get XCode 13.1 to build without complaining. Binaries should work with Intel/M1 macs but I didn't test it beyond my own Macbook.

Binaries:

• iChm_local.zip built with no signing for local run
• iChm_sign.zip built and signed with personal development signing cert

I hope it helps!

Note: Depending on your security settings your Mac might refuse to run it, so you might need to remove the quarantine flags.

@bucanero Can't open Compiled HTML Archive file....

[delook]

Today I tried again installing your signed app, @txl263
This time I could successful install it on macOS 11.7.4 after following steps:

• sudo spctl --master-disable
• install it
• restart PC
• open all my chm with iChm

Thank you very much for your help and effort!

[vit9696]

There actually as a version compatible with recent macOS, which I made since this version is apparently unmaintained: https://github.com/vit9696/iChm/releases