[Scilab-users] Scilab cannot work on macOS 10.15 Catalina: Any progress in sight?

[Heinz Nabielek]

On 02.11.2019, at 21:56, Stéphane Mottelet <stephane.mottelet at utc.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>> Le 2 nov. 2019 à 17:41, knobs <wknoelly at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Heinz, Did you find a fix? I had SciLab 6 running perfectly well on my Macs under both Mojave and High Sierra without installing Java 6. This is not an Apple problem, but a SciLab issue.
> 
> This IS an Apple issue.
> 
>> Honestly, I do not understand why SciLab has to use be Java 6 ?!! Seems backwards to me. There was a way to tell old java apps to use the new up-to-date java. I just do not remember how I did this anymore.
> 
> See
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> https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/modifying-oracles-java-sdk-to-run-java-applications-on-os-x/
> 
>> So after installing Catalina, Scilab does not work anymore. It must have removed my java links/fix. Once I figure it out again, I let you know. Cheers Willi 
> 
> The first thing you can do is to launch Scilab from the command line and post the error message.


Exactly same error window messages and ...

/Applications/scilab-6.0.2.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/scilab -nw
true
No Java runtime present, requesting install.

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