GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 682913
GIMP Crashes on launching 32bit CPU
Last modified: 2012-09-01 07:35:20 UTC
Overview: Official GIMP binary offered by gimp.org at http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ crashes on launch. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install it 2. Try launching it Actual Results: The application crashed immediately. Expected Results: Well, of course it should not crash. Platform were bug occurs: OS - Mac OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard CPU - 1.83GHz Intel Cored Duo (32bit) GPU - ATi Radeon X1600 RAM - 2 GB Platforms were bug doesn't occur: Same machine - Using Macport's gimp2 v2.8.0 (either with or without X11) Same machine - Using Gimp on OS X's (v2.8.0) http://gimp.lisanet.de Mac Intel Core 2 Duo (64bit) / Mac OSX 10.6.8 - Using gimp.org or any other version. Additional Information: Well i think this binary (the one posted at gimp.org download page) was build targeting only 64 bit Macs; you can read a line in the log file i attached wich says: "Bad CPU type in executable" This usually happens when you try to launch any application build either for PPC (when Roseta isn't installed) or for 64bit.
Created attachment 222701 [details] Log file
> Well i think this binary (the one posted at gimp.org download page) was build targeting only 64 bit Macs Correct: $ file /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/GIMP-bin /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/GIMP-bin: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
That is correct, my app only support a 64 bit operating system. Working on getting that information on the website as we speak. Please look for skl's x11 version for possible 32 bit versions of gimp.