Neovide: Fails to run on macOS: `Vulkan support is either not configured in SDL or not available in current SDL video driver (cocoa) or platform`

[kuka0len]

When I run ./neovide I get this error:

thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to create window: SdlError("Vulkan support is either not configured in SDL or not available in current SDL video driver (cocoa) or platform")', src/window/sdl2/mod.rs:405:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

[LakeByTheWoods]

See https://github.com/Kethku/neovide/issues/368#issuecomment-704650261

Looks like the most recent build of sdl2 was built without vulkan support on MacOS

[kuka0len]

It worked, thanks.
I just had to downgrade sdl2-sys form 0.34.3 to 0.34.2.

[nerosnm]

I'm having this issue on macOS 10.15.7 when building from the latest main (5c6d84a).

[Kethku]

@nerosnm could you try with current main? I swapped to opengl.

[nerosnm]

@Kethku It does work now, although it prints:

Ignored client type property: "methods"
Ignored client type property: "attributes"

I also needed to build using cargo +nightly build --release instead of cargo build --release, because of:

error: failed to parse manifest at `/Users/soren/src/github.com/Kethku/neovide/Cargo.toml`

Caused by:
  feature `resolver` is required

  this Cargo does not support nightly features, but if you
  switch to nightly channel you can add
  `cargo-features = ["resolver"]` to enable this feature

Maybe adding a rust-toolchain file would be helpful, if it needs to be built using nightly?

[jdu]

I'm having the same issue on MacOS Big Sur. On latest main and was having it previously a few weeks ago (never resolved it).

Building in release mode:

    Finished release [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 2.66s
➜  neovide git:(main) ./target/release/neovide
Ignored client type property: "methods"
Ignored client type property: "attributes"
➜  neovide git:(main) thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to create window: SdlError("Vulkan support is either not configured in SDL or not available in current SDL video driver (cocoa) or platform")', src/window/sdl2/mod.rs:442:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

[jdu]

The opengl branch builds and runs on macos Big Sur 11.2.3

[jdu]

Though it's lookin a little rough...

[a06kin]

Current main with sdl2-sys = 0.34.3 doesn't for me (Big Sur 11.3 Beta)
I just tried to update sdl2-sys to 0.34.4 and it worked.
Seems like 0.34.3 really don't like macos.

I build it from last main simply with cargo build --release

[i3d]

Current main with sdl2-sys = 0.34.3 doesn't for me (Big Sur 11.3 Beta)
I just tried to update sdl2-sys to 0.34.4 and it worked.
Seems like 0.34.3 really don't like macos.

I build it from last main simply with cargo build --release

Do you have a detail step how to update sdl2-sys to 0.34.4?

I tried something obvious but it seems wrong... So what I did was to change the Cargo specs to 0.34.4, but I got this

cargo build --release
error: failed to select a version for libc.
... required by package sdl2 v0.34.4
... which is depended on by skulpin-renderer-sdl2 v0.5.0 (https://github.com/aclysma/skulpin?branch=master#8a913ed5)
... which is depended on by skulpin v0.11.1 (https://github.com/aclysma/skulpin?branch=master#8a913ed5)
... which is depended on by neovide v0.7.0 (/Users/jimxu/src/neovide)
versions that meet the requirements ^0.2.92 are: 0.2.93, 0.2.92

all possible versions conflict with previously selected packages.

previously selected package libc v0.2.82
... which is depended on by atty v0.2.14
... which is depended on by clap v2.33.3
... which is depended on by bindgen v0.54.0
... which is depended on by skia-bindings v0.32.1
... which is depended on by skia-safe v0.32.1
... which is depended on by neovide v0.7.0 (/Users/jimxu/src/neovide)

failed to select a version for libc which could resolve this conflict

[i3d]

ah sorry, looks like hand editing isn't the way to do, need to use the cargo update -p sdl2-sys --precise 0.34.4 command.

[Kethku]

I just merged a PR which bumped sdl2 to 0.34.4. Hopefully that fixes the issue

[Kethku]

I think this has been fixed in main. Please reopen if you come back to this and the issue remains.