Hello, I’m having trouble installing Synfig on my Macbook Pro.
I download the .dmg file, press open, once it finishes verifying the file, the Synfig icon just bounces on the dock until I force quit.
I installed XQuartz but it didn’t help.
Hi and welcome here 
Please check it is not coming from GateKeeper, XQuartz is not needed anymore
wiki.synfig.org/Doc:Troubleshoot … fig_on_OSX
synfig.org/cms/en/news/nativ … e-testing/
youtube.com/watch?v=0rXHm_-Ofo0
Don’t forget you could use the latest dev builds 
Thank you for the help but it still won’t run. I don’t have a verification issue. When I press open and it gets verified, it just bounces on the dock.
Nothing opens. I tried the new development build and the same thing happens. Any other solution maybe? Do I have to install macports?
Depending the version you can try the MacPorts (for 1.0.2, which outdated and not recommended)
Another “safe” option is to use a VirtualBox with a Linux distro inside, you can even use seamless mode to have Synfig “floating” in your Mac environment.
As this Mac OS X is relatively new, you could try to build Synfig from scratch, the DMG could have been produced with an outdatedset of libraries.
Try to start synfigstudio from a console, you may have error messages giving us more details 
It opened! All I did was restart the computer and it started working for some reason. Didn’t even change anything.
Thank you for the help!
Another proof Mac OS X and Windows are converging 
Have fun with Synfig!
I know this is an old thread, but I am having the same problem.
I’m using a MacBook Pro with 10.11.6. Same problem as Kablam described.
Have this problem with both Synfig Studio 1.4.2 and 1.4.3.
Does not appear to be a verification issue.
The Mac OS X install is a clean install so there shouldn’t be any conflicts.
On a newer MacBook Pro, I have the same 10.11.6 setup in a virtual machine. Synfig Studio opens and runs in that VM. So, I don’t know why it won’t run on the other MacBook Pro that has a normal 10.11.6 install.
Would appreciate any tips. While I could run it in the VM, I’d prefer to get it working on the MacBook Pro with 10.11.6 installed as that is my test machine.
Thanks!
Hi and welcome here
Did you have any error message from the console? (see Troubleshooting_Synfig_on_OSX )
Are the 2 installs with the same bitness and archi? (32/64…)
In a VM, the hardware is emulated, in general enough generic/compatible, maybe some missing drivers on the physical install?
Hi,
The two installs are both 64-bit. Both Intel. The real machine has 4 GB of RAM while the VM only has 2 GB.
In Terminal, if I use “/tmp/skl/SynfigStudio/Contents/Resources/synfig/bin/synfigstudio” I get “No such file or directory.”
The problem report after SynfigStudio crashes says:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Code:: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
If any drivers are missing, I don’t know what they might be. I did a standard install for both the physical machine and the VM.
Thanks!
Please check this thread maybe you will find the solution, therewas the same error:
I’m guessing 1.4.x is not going to run on this machine. It’s a 2007 MacBook Pro, which is possibly the same model used by the OP in the thread you linked. I haven’t tried downloading 1.2.2 to see if it works, but I suspect it would.