Minimum requirements for functionality.

[amcgregor]

Howdy!

On macOS (and even Linux, but I'm focusing on Mac) you can use Wine (or the "Game Porting Toolkit" on ARM) to run this application, which is great!

There are a few notes on the console during start-up, but as can be seen in the above screenshot things look relatively okay.

> wine64 The\ Long\ Dark\ Save\ Editor\ 2.exe

01e8:err:environ:init_peb starting L"Z:\\…\\The Long Dark Save Editor 2.exe" in experimental wow64 mode
01e8:fixme:mscoree:parse_supported_runtime sku=L".NETFramework,Version=v4.8" not implemented
01e8:fixme:mscoree:parse_supported_runtime sku=L".NETFramework,Version=v4.8" not implemented
01e8:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
01e8:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
… above line repeated a few dozen times …
… some graphics set-up and a few more of that line …

Only problem, there are no characters / saves to select from. That's what I'm hoping the registry key errors are pointing out; it can't look up the actual installation location for the game as the game was actually installed on the host system, accessible below the Z: "drive". The question becomes: where is the save editor expecting the files to be located, and where on a macOS system would those files be likewise located?

I could just symlink the save location into the appropriate location below the virtual C: drive, or set the registry key to point at the host. Once this is worked out, I can provide instructions for constructing macOS-capable releases using tools like WineBottler, which create independent redistributable .app bundles which include a Wine redistributable in addition to the app being wrapped.

Thanks and have a great day!

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Edit: Ah… oh.

TLD-Save-Editor/The Long Dark Save Editor 2/MainWindow.xaml.cs

Line 142 in ad3378a

var path = Path.Combine(Util.GetLocalPath(), testBranch ? "HinterlandTest2" : "Hinterland", "TheLongDark", "Survival");

TLD-Save-Editor/The Long Dark Save Editor 2/Helpers/Util.cs

Lines 86 to 90 in 38cf906

	public static string GetLocalPath()
	{
	Guid localLowId = new Guid("A520A1A4-1780-4FF6-BD18-167343C5AF16");
	return GetKnownFolderPath(localLowId).Replace("LocalLow", "Local");
	}

[FINDarkside]

Cool to see you got it mostly working on Mac!

Yeah it's looking for C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/Hinterland/TheLongDark/Survival for most users. I'm not really sure what that GetKnownFolderPath stuff would return on Mac. I also don't know where the actualy save files are on mac.

Once this is worked out, I can provide instructions for constructing macOS-capable releases using tools like WineBottler, which create independent redistributable .app bundles which include a Wine redistributable in addition to the app being wrapped.

I'm not really developing this project anymore, latest update #83 was also not done by me. Even though it's very cool that this could work on Mac, I don't think I'll spend time on that. Especially since I don't own any Mac computers so I'd have no way to test that the builds actually work.