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> supporting Wine on MacOS after they drop 32 bit application support Steam itself still looks be 32-bit on macOS: lipo -info /Applications/Steam.app/Conten
by favorited 8y ago
> supporting Wine on MacOS after they drop 32 bit application support
Steam itself still looks be 32-bit on macOS:
lipo -info /Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx
Non-fat file: /Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx is architecture: i386
- cprecioso 8y agoThe executable in /Applications is 32-bit, but it's just a launcher for the real Steam app in ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/Steam.AppBundle which is 64-bit.
- favorited 8y agoAhh thank you! I knew I was missing something... I'd get the alert message, then the Steam app would seemingly close and re-launch. I wonder why it is architected like that.
- cprecioso 8y agoI guess that it's like that in order to be able to update the executable for non-privileged users (who can't write to /Applications), which could be e.g. kids' user accounts in the family computer.