# LibrePCB crashes on startup

**URL:** <https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-crashes-on-startup/873>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-crashes-on-startup/873 "2025-01-15T11:26:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![rogereab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/65b543/32.png) [@rogereab](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/rogereab)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 11:26am UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-crashes-on-startup/873/1 "2025-01-15T11:26:09Z")

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Stumbled across this app and installed v1.2.0 on my iMac to try it out.

Unfortunately it crashes on startup, where/how do I report this problem? Really looking forward to trying it out!

Running iMac Catalina 10.15.7 with 24GB memory

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-15 at 11.10.29](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/librepcb1/original/1X/8fe2e80eac5987f6b9cace84aa75b17fa9c63d17.png)

Thanks

Roger B

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**Author:** ![ubruhin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c89c15/32.png) [@ubruhin](https://librepcb.discourse.group/u/ubruhin)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://librepcb.discourse.group/t/librepcb-crashes-on-startup/873/2 "2025-01-15T11:48:26Z")

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Hi,  
Unfortunately we cannot provide binaries for older macos versions anymore (see minimum requirement on download page). But you could [build it from sources](https://librepcb.org/docs/installation/build-from-sources/), which is not too difficult. Maybe some mac user could assist if needed.

See the full details here:

> <https://github.com/LibrePCB/LibrePCB/issues/1474#issuecomment-2525954691>
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> The latest release 1.2.0 crashes on launch on my iMac running 11.7.10, the lates…t version this iMac can run.
> 
> Wanting to move away from EasyEDA, I found Horizon EDA (PC only), KiCad and LibrePCB. Wanting to try them all, I started with LibrePCBé. As I wanted to work on my older iMac that has a big screen, I find this is a turnoff, made worse by the fact that it looks like LibrePCB still works on even older versions of Mac OS (10.14) if I were to compile it myself.
> 
> Why not release a binary that works all the way down to 10.14, and be inclusive of the older OS?
