macOS x64 DMG contains arm64 native module (`ced.node`) – crashes on Intel Mac

[mad99]

Environment

• MacBook Pro (Intel)
• CPU: 2.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7
• Architecture: x86_64
• macOS: Sequoja 15.7.3 (24G419)

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Problem: x64 DMG crashes on Intel Mac

I downloaded:

marktext-mac-x64-0.18.6.dmg

(later also marktext-mac-x64-0.18.7.dmg and marktext-mac-x64-0.18.5.dmg with the same Issue)

On startup, the application crashes with the following error:

Uncaught Exception:
Error: dlopen(.../node_modules/ced/build/Release/ced.node, 0x0001):
mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64h' or 'x86_64')

Before have done the security-hack from marktext#3004

The relevant part:

have 'arm64', need 'x86_64'

This suggests that the x64 DMG contains a native module (ced.node) compiled for arm64, even though the application build itself is x64.

Since this is an Intel Mac (uname -m returns x86_64), the application cannot load the module and crashes immediately.

This looks like a packaging/build pipeline issue where native dependencies were compiled on Apple Silicon without proper cross-compilation for x64.

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Questions

• Is the mac-x64 release built and tested on Intel hardware?

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Thank you for maintaining the project — I’m happy to test fixes if needed.

[boston-black]

I have the same error.

[Tkaixiang]

Hi this has been fixed in 0.18.9 pre-release, do try out the build there and let me know if it works! https://github.com/Tkaixiang/marktext/releases