I am trying to use a tool written to help convert output of one program to a file useable by another.
The tool when downloaded is a lot of files and a .exe file.
I assumed this is not the Mac version, but the developer says that it runs on Mac OS and I need to CHMOD +x it and it will run.
I can't even get to the stage of trying that as my mac defaults to use the Unarchiver for .exe files. I have tried both SwiftDefaultApps and RCdefault apps to try and de-allocate the unarchiver to those files, but neither works.
I've changed the suffix manually to .app and tried to run that but am told "You can’t open the application because it is not supported on this type of Mac."
I have dug into the terminal and think I have chmod -x the file.
Is there something I should be doing, or is it just that an exe just never going to work on a mac?
I'm a bit confused.
Thanks for any pointers.
Best Answer
I have downloaded the program and can confirm that the exe file is indeed an ordinary exe file - and definitely not a script file for Linux or anything of the sorts.
I would assume that when the author mentions that the project is cross-platform, and allows running on Linux and macOS - he means that you could install the Mono Project and run the program that way.
However executing the exe file via mono like this:
doesn't actually work. It does work with other .NET cross-platform exe files though.