mbed-cli is broken on MacOS Catalina

[iotexpert]

When I installed MacOS Catalina the MBEDCLI stopped working.

I made a HACK by changing the path to the Terminal.app in the file:

The file /Applications/MBEDCLI.app/Contents/Resources/script

open Terminal and call run-mbed-cli.sh, use Popen instead of subprocess.call to pass in environment variables

subprocess.Popen(
["/usr/bin/open", "--fresh", "-a", "/System/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app", "source/run-mbed-cli.sh"]
)

[SeppoTakalo]

I don't understand.. What exactly stopped working.

I'm using Mac OS X Catalina, and I have not modified mbed-cli. Works like it should. I'm using both Python2 and Python3. Both seems to work.

[ciarmcom]

Internal Jira reference: https://jira.arm.com/browse/IOTBTOOL-456

[iotexpert]

Take a mac on an old os
install mbed-cli (the installer)
Update to macos catalina
run the "Mbed CLI" app
See it fail

[40Grit]

Just one of the many reasons I wish there was an official docker container for Mbed Tooling.

[maclobdell]

@SeppoTakalo - did you install mbed cli with the macOS installer? Could this be an installer issue? It looks like the installer is very old. I recently put in a ticket about the Windows installer being very old.

[arshadpc]

is this resolved if yes kindly let me know the solution?

[arshadpc]

@SeppoTakalo kindly answer above query?

[0xc0170]

@arshadpc Are you having the same issue? Did you use installer? If you install it via pip, does it fail the same way?

[arshadpc]

@arshadpc Are you having the same issue? Did you use installer? If you install it via pip, does it fail the same way?
@0xc0170 Yes ,i have not tried with pip i used installer and seeing issue.

[SeppoTakalo]

No, I have not used the installer.

For mbed-cli and related tools, I have always installed those with clean Python virtual environment.

[SeppoTakalo]

So is the conclusion then that installer is broken, and with pip install it works.

[emha69]

When I installed MacOS Catalina the MBEDCLI stopped working.

The path to Terminal.app is not correct, the error displayed is:

​Printing from run-mbed-cli.py
MBED_CLI_APP_DIR=/Applications/MBEDCLI.app/Contents/Resources
$HOME= /Users/
FSPathMakeRef(/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) failed with error -43.

I made a HACK by changing the path to the Terminal.app in the file:

The file /Applications/MBEDCLI.app/Contents/Resources/script

open Terminal and call run-mbed-cli.sh, use Popen instead of subprocess.call to pass in environment variables

subprocess.Popen(
["/usr/bin/open", "--fresh", "-a", "/System/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app", "source/run-mbed-cli.sh"]
)

After adding "/System" folder in front of "/Applications" as described the script works as expected.