New player can't load on Mac

[Grax]

I downloaded version 1.3 for mac from http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/sil/

When I run sil it always says

Sil was unable to find the 'lib' folder, which should be in the same folder as the application, so must quit. Please report a bug on the Angband forums.

The application SIL is in the same folder as LIB.

[Grax]

For those that have this problem you have to right click on the SIL file in the sil folder and pick show package contents. From there you go into the mac os folder and there is an sil file in there that runs it.

[Julian]

Having just decided to try Sil, I have to say, that’s pretty broken behavior.

Is the game still being maintained?

[Pete Mack]

Yes, a broken package is a problem worth fixing. No, that doesnt mean Sil isnt being maintained. It means there is no volunteer to do it for OSX. It takes someone who actually owns one to test and fix.

[Nick]

Sil is no longer being maintained, but Sil-q is; look at the readme here for compilation instructions.

[backwardsEric]

The section for the Mac in those README instructions was updated after the most recent beta release for Sil-q 1.5 so you'd want to compile from the GitHub sources. With those changes, it should assemble a self-contained macOS application that won't have the problem reported in the original post.