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Normally, any game compiled with a modern version of Unity (I think maybe Unity 2018 or newer?) will crash on startup on OS X 10.9, with the message:

Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _getattrlistbulk

But, I got them to work by injecting some code to stub that missing symbol. The need to work around two-level namespacing made this much more annoying than it should have been.

I really need to document this process somewhere, and I've been thinking of posting a self-Q&A on this site. However, because the fix is basically to write and compile a bit of C code, I'm concerned the answer would be considered off-topic on Ask Different. On the other hand, this isn't the type of development question that would make sense on e.g. StackOverflow.

Any thoughts? I just don't want to spend a couple of hours writing something that will be closed. :)

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Go ahead and post it. It‘s a bit borderline, but using C code to solve an enduser problem isn‘t so much different from installing a tool via Homebrew.

Also, even if it gets closed (which I doubt) the post will remain and should even be able to get votes.

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    Agreed. Short question, answer that solves a practical question and teaches how things work is awesome. The point of off topic is unanswered questions due to missing skill sets or the noise created waiting for a proper answer. I can’t see either issue triggering with a self answered post.
    – bmike Mod
    Feb 27, 2021 at 21:06
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    Thanks! Question is here btw. :) apple.stackexchange.com/questions/414688/…
    – Wowfunhappy
    Feb 28, 2021 at 20:02
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    Just be sure to tell us how you really feel about graphical redesigns and skeuomorphic effects @Wowfunhappy :-)
    – bmike Mod
    Feb 28, 2021 at 20:27

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