CODEWITHSUNDEEP
xamarin
Jörgen Buder
Jörgen Buder

Reputation: 26

Xamarin Studio do not start after install

Trying to install and run Xamarin Studio on my Mac, unfortunately this is not going well, please help. I have 7 years cross platform and app development behind me so I should now the basics.

I downloaded Xamarin Studio for Mac on the site, a dmg file was clicked and installation begun. I have gone through all steps and after problems with disk space (25 GB??) it was done.

Moving on to start Xamarin Studio and nothing happens. Absolutely nothing. I tried reboot my mac, I tried several times to start, but nothing. (It was installed and required to enter my Admin password so it should have been installed as admin)

I use Yosemite 10.10.5 at the moment I have Xcode installed version 7.1.1 I have Android SDK installed from before (but now also a new SDK :( )

When I read at the site there are not consistent information, at the requirements overview it says latest Xcode is required, on the actual table it is recommended. Anyone know if this is ACTUALLY my problem?

I have a problem to upgrade at this point as it can produce production problems for the deliveries I am about to do this week, at the same time I need to have Xamarin started.

Have anyone been running Xamarin with Xcode 7.1.1?? And build apps to iOS?

I was kind of expecting Xamarin Studio to at least start and let me know.

By the way I have been trying to find the answer here but cannot find anything, also at Google of course, let me know if you know a resource..

Hope I was enough specific

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1136

Answers (2)

JeanPaulDepraz
JeanPaulDepraz

Reputation: 669

I'm running El Captain 10.11.6 and what solved the problem to me was to follow @SushiHangover's step 2 that is to open Terminal and run Xamarin from the cli, then I got this:

 $ /Applications/Xamarin\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/XamarinStudio
Cannot open assembly '/Applications/Xamarin Studio.app/./XamarinStudio.exe': No such file or directory.

After that I googled it and read this bugzilla thread that made me remove Xamarin Studio app:

$ rm -rf /Applications/Xamarin\ Studio.app

And and reinstall it from the original installer. All worked fine after this. :)

Upvotes: 1

SushiHangover
SushiHangover

Reputation: 74134

1) Open Console.app, "Clear the Display" and launch Xamarin Studio and review the Messages for failures/issues

2) Open a shell (Terminal or iTerm2) and run Xamarin Studio and review any messages shown. A properly functioning Xamarin Studio launched to it's main window this way will not produce any messages in the shell.

/Applications/Xamarin\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/XamarinStudio

3) Check the Xamarin Studio logs:

cd ~/Library/Logs/XamarinStudio-6.0/
rm *.log
/Applications/Xamarin\ Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/XamarinStudio

Review any .log files created

Xamarin System Requirements:

Upvotes: 2

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