Update breaks cwebp on macOS ("cwebp failed")

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Update breaks cwebp on macOS ("cwebp failed")

kvn1351 opened this issue 2 years ago · 9 comments

Hi, the addon suddenly stopped working. There's no error but the tooltip mentions cwebp failed.

I've checked if the executables are present. And yes, they are. Nothing has been changed or touched since it worked. Besides the update perhaps.

Version ⁨2.1.54 (b6a7760c)⁩
Python 3.9.7 Qt 6.3.1 PyQt 6.3.1
MacOS ARM

Thanks for any support :)

Answer 1 · 2022-10-07T18:01:09.000Z

I can confirm that it's the update. I got the old version from a backup and it works perfectly.

Answer 2 · 2022-10-07T19:41:10.000Z

Thanks for the info. Contributions are welcome.

Answer 3 · 2022-10-15T11:11:40.000Z

I had the same computer configuration and had the problem and the same solution😂， use the github release version 1.5 feel well.

Answer 4 · 2022-10-23T01:38:40.000Z

I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but after a recent update, I got a permission error from 1151815987/support/cwebp, and had to run chmod u+x cwebp for it to work. Would this be the source of the error? @tatsumoto-ren

P.S. I was looking to see if I can just make a quick PR, but after doing a super quick search, I couldn't find the executables in the repository. I'm guessing they're packed with the addon itself outside of this repository.

Answer 5 · 2022-10-23T15:08:58.000Z

Yes, the executables are added when you run package.sh.

Answer 6 · 2022-10-23T17:08:50.000Z

@kvn1351

ARM

The executables included with this add-on are for x86-64. If your computer has a different architecture, install cwebp and make sure it is in you PATH. Then it should work.

Answer 7 · 2022-10-23T17:11:34.000Z

While this surely would lead to a performance improvement, it's not the reason we're having this issue. Because the previous, working, version had the very same x86-64 executables no?

Intel executables get seamlessly translated on the fly by Rosetta2 in most cases, including cwebp. But thanks for the suggestion!

Answer 8 · 2022-10-23T17:19:33.000Z

I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but after a recent update, I got a permission error from 1151815987/support/cwebp, and had to run chmod u+x cwebp for it to work. Would this be the source of the error? @tatsumoto-ren

P.S. I was looking to see if I can just make a quick PR, but after doing a super quick search, I couldn't find the executables in the repository. I'm guessing they're packed with the addon itself outside of this repository.

So does it work after that? (I can't test right now)

Answer 9 · 2022-10-24T08:25:23.000Z

I'm not sure if this is the same issue, but after a recent update, I got a permission error from 1151815987/support/cwebp, and had to run chmod u+x cwebp for it to work. Would this be the source of the error? @tatsumoto-ren
P.S. I was looking to see if I can just make a quick PR, but after doing a super quick search, I couldn't find the executables in the repository. I'm guessing they're packed with the addon itself outside of this repository.

So does it work after that? (I can't test right now)

It does indeed work for me, but as mentioned before, it could be a different issue.