Charlzz (Dec 26 2024 at 15:49): Charlzz (Dec 26 2024 at 15:49):I tried following the steps to install Roc here:
https://www.roc-lang.org/install/macos_apple_silicon.
When I tried typing "roc version", it couldn't find roc at all.
Any suggestions on how to proceed? I can provide more details if someone has ideas on what could have gone wrong.
Sam Mohr (Dec 26 2024 at 15:53):Can you post the path to the Roc executable?
Sam Mohr (Dec 26 2024 at 15:53):And then post the part of your PATH that would point to it?
Charlzz (Dec 26 2024 at 17:54):OK I realized I thought roc would be installed in a standard location rather than in the directory that the gz file expanded to. I manually added that path and had to brew install one other package for some library that was needed. I assume, at some point, it would be brew install roc, but we're not there yet?
Anthony Bullard (Dec 26 2024 at 18:16):We are quite a ways from that
Anthony Bullard (Dec 26 2024 at 18:16):But I agree with we should have a script to install to some standard location
Anthony Bullard (Dec 26 2024 at 18:18):Probably $HOME/.local/bin
Charlzz (Dec 26 2024 at 18:21):All is good though. I was briefly looking at Gleam, but unlike Python, it had a bit of scaffolding even for a simple Hello, World program. It's nice to write short programs without needing extra directories. For a web setup, fine. It looks like Roc can be compiled and presumably run in an interpreted mode (like Python by default)?
Anthony Bullard (Dec 26 2024 at 18:23):In a way yes. A roc file can just be run and built. It can even be run as a script with the appropriate shebang
Anton (Dec 27 2024 at 14:56):Anthony's message is correct but Roc is always compiled to assembly, not interpreted
Anthony Bullard (Dec 27 2024 at 15:00):That's a good clarification Anton
Jake Wood (May 29 2026 at 13:30):Hi so I'm on MacOs Tahoe (intel) and the install instructions don't work for me. :sweat_smile:
I downloaded the nightly binary and added the directory to my path. When I run roc version I get
roc version
dyld[30101]: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/z3/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib
Referenced from: <A0597734-EDA3-388D-870E-C831508B0AE8> /Users/jakew/Documents/work/roc/roc_nightly-macos_x86_64-2025-02-04-59ff9bd/roc
Reason: tried: '/usr/local/opt/z3/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/opt/z3/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/opt/z3/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '/usr/local/Cellar/z3/4.15.4/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/Cellar/z3/4.15.4/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/Cellar/z3/4.15.4/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libz3.4.13.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)
[1] 30101 abort roc version
which makes sense b/c I have a different version of libz3:
ls -1 /usr/local/opt/z3/lib/
libz3.4.15.4.0.dylib
libz3.4.15.dylib
libz3.dylib
doing
brew install z3 zstd
doesn't fix it.
Jake Wood (May 29 2026 at 13:37):oh huh. user error I think? I had an older version of roc that was getting found first and was failing so disregard the above. my new issue is that macos won't let Roc run b/c it thinks it malware... :thinking:
dangerously telling macos that everything is fine :sweat_smile:
Anton (May 29 2026 at 13:56):Hi @Jake Wood
my new issue is that macos won't let Roc run b/c it thinks it malware...
Using the install script should avoid that.
Anton (May 29 2026 at 13:57):https://roc-lang.org/install_roc.sh
Anton (May 29 2026 at 14:00):I did notice an error with the install script that I will fix now:
sh: line 136: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
By the way, the error only happens when you do not pipe to sh.
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