Biber crashes on MacOS 12.6.8/MacTex-2023

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Biber crashes on MacOS 12.6.8/MacTex-2023

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I am using MacTex-2023 on a M1 MacBookPro running MacOS Monterey 12.6.8.

Invoking biber 2.19 with any options (even biber --version or biber --help) fails with the following error message:

Compress::Raw::Zlib object version 2.105 does not match bootstrap parameter 2.202 at /loader/HASH(0x147918428)/Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm line 140.
Compilation failed in require at /loader/HASH(0x1478f8fb0)/Archive/Zip.pm line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /loader/HASH(0x1478f8fb0)/Archive/Zip.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at -e line 157.

Right now I am working around this by using a 3.18 binary from SourceForge, which works correctly.

Answer 1 · 2023-08-08T10:00:53.000Z

Are you using the universal or arm64 binary from SF? I have just updated the universal binary, which I'd forgotten to do earlier.

Answer 2 · 2023-08-11T09:32:52.000Z

The buggy binary is the universal one from CTAN. Its release date (from biber.pdf) is 5th March 2023, and its SHA256 checksum is 975fc4e9cddc15dc8731c81523d71ed6ea09259df3b5bf0ec574b8753ca6fed6.

The one I am using as a workaround is also a universal binary (found at biblatex-biber/2.18/binaries/MacOS/biber-darwin_universal.tar.gz on SF), with checksum 0f7bc7f73bef50d39c841f9341054e535a717854e0691544912bb4627bbeab77.

Answer 3 · 2023-08-11T12:07:03.000Z

Have you tried the latest 2.19 universal?

Answer 4 · 2023-08-14T07:35:30.000Z

Have you tried the latest 2.19 universal?

I am sorry, but where may I find that? The current universal binary on SourceForge appears to be the same as the one currently available through CPAN.

Answer 5 · 2023-08-14T07:41:54.000Z

Apologies, I meant the 2.20 DEV binary: https://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/development/binaries/MacOS/

Answer 6 · 2023-08-14T07:44:57.000Z

Thank you for the link. Sadly I get the same error message in this version as well.

Answer 7 · 2023-08-14T08:28:02.000Z

I'm assuming that if you try the ARM64 binary from the same location, you get the same error?

Answer 8 · 2023-08-14T09:45:53.000Z

I didn't find an ARM64 binary at that location, but I could run the x86_64 one. Interestingly, that one did not fail!

So, I also tested the 2.19 x86_64 binary and found that that it has no issues either. Therefore I am currently using that one (which allows me to run biblatex 3.19).

Answer 9 · 2023-08-14T09:59:32.000Z

Ah, right, there is no ARM64 on there - you can get the ARM64 binary by getting the universal and running:

lipo -extract arm64 -output biberarm64 biber

Then try and run the biberarm64 binary.

Answer 10 · 2023-08-14T12:06:39.000Z

Thank you for the instructions. I can confirm that the resulting binary still displays the same error message.

Answer 11 · 2024-02-18T18:21:55.000Z

I think this is because you are running 12.4 and the M1 I build on is 14.1. I assume they've updated zilb. I don't have spare M1s to keep on an older version like I do with x64s - can you update or just use the x64 version in compat mode?

Answer 12 · 2024-04-18T07:37:37.000Z

A new build has been made for 2.20 - you can try that now as it is released.