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DCW MacOS Big Sur Patch Instructions

By Jordan Hodges posted Mon December 07, 2020 01:13 PM

  

DCW MacOS patch

Problem:
DCW is unable to launch on MacOS platforms with Big Sur (MacOS v11) update.

Error seen:
When ./dcw is executed in a terminal window, following alert window pops up on the screen with message “Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine” and DCW is not launched.

Workaround:
To fix the above problem, a patch is made available. Users need to download this patch and follow the instructions contained within README-macos-patch.txt

User can also follow instructions as below -

Workaround 1: Download and execute patch

Terminologies: DCW_HOME = Where DCW is been extracted.

  • Download patch zip - dcw-macos-patch.zip

  • Unzip the zip file in DCW_HOME. Make sure unzipped data should be in the

    DCW_HOME directory (Not in the child directory)

  • In a terminal window, execute the shell script named dcw-patch-macos.sh

    sh dcw-patch-macos.sh

    The command executes, and if errors, then proper message is given. Correct the error before executing the command again.


Workaround 2: Manual patching (without any download)

Terminologies: DCW_HOME = Where DCW is been extracted.

  • Open terminal window

  • Execute command /usr/libexec/java_home -V

  • Output similar to following will be seen

    Matching Java Virtual Machines (2):
    11.0.6,x86_64: "JavaSE11.0.6" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.6.jdk/Contents/Home

    1.8.0_251, x86_64: "Java SE 8" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_251.jdk/Contents/Home/ /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.6.jdk/Contents/Home

  • Copy the path which starts with /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
    In above case it will be, /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.6.jdk/Contents/Home

  • Now traverse to that path then go to bin and check if file named as “java” exists Path should look like below

    ls /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.6.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

  • Copy this path to clipboard.

  • Go to DCW_HOME

  • Open file named as dcw in an editor

  • Go to line number 3 which have content like ./dcw

  • Append java_home text with below argument

    Before change line number 3:

    ./dcw

    After change line number 3:

    ./dcw -vm <step_1_copied_text>/bin/java

    Should looks like this

    ./dcw -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk<version>.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

  • Save the file.

  • Run DCW with command ./dcw


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