I’m experiencing instant crashes on a 12-core Mac Pro running Mojave 10.14.6 and Max 8.1.11. Everything is working on a MacBook pro with the same OS and Max versions but Max instantly crashes on the desktop machine when opening a patch with any Flucoma objects or if I call one of them in a patcher. The crash logs also point towards Flucoma objects but I can’t really read them to know anything specific.
If you could send one of the crash reports that would help us diagnose things better. However, the mostly likely explanation is that your Mac pro doesn’t support AVX instructions. One way to test this is to open Terminal and run
sysctl -a | grep machdep.cpu.features
On my machine, for instance, I get this alphabet soup. You’ll see ‘AVX1.0’ near the end. If you don’t see that on your machine, then this is the culprit.
a program called CMake, which we use to manage the build processes.
a program called Git, which we use for version control
the Max SDK
Compiler
The first order of business (and maybe the hardest) is getting the xcode command line tools installed. I’m assuming you have little use for xcode itself (which is a very large install), so we’ll see if we can get you set up with just the terminal stuff (which is tiny).
This might work, and if it does is the quickest way. Open terminal and run
xcode-select --install
If that doesn’t work, then you might end up needing an Apple Developer account (free) to manually download.
The xcode version compatible with 10.14.6 is 11.3 (according to this)
Which can be downloaded from here (requires login)
CMake
The easiest way to install this (IMO) is via something called homebrew, which is a package manager for all kinds of useful command line tools. So, first one needs to install homebrew by running this terminal command: