Crashing my mac on installation

[jpatt]

Hello all,
I've tried searching this in the forum and the post I found did not resolve this issue. I downloaded the SDL and pak, put them together and this is the message I get:

Process:         simutrans [9746]
Path:            /Users/USER/Downloads/*/simutrans.app/Contents/MacOS/simutrans
Identifier:      org.simutrans.simutrans
Version:         ? ?? (note: I added a space to stop the emoji)
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [163]
Responsible:     simutrans [9746]
User ID:         501

Date/Time:       2014-12-04 23:51:11.736 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  52AC9142-D278-80D2-4E87-538BAB1F5D7F

Sleep/Wake UUID: 0F3A6BD7-156C-4BA9-8A6C-C759993D926A

Crashed Thread:  0

Exception Type:  EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: @rpath/SDL2.framework/Versions/A/SDL2
  Referenced from: /Users/USER/Downloads/*/simutrans.app/Contents/MacOS/simutrans
  Reason: image not found

Binary Images:
    0x7fff62b9e000 -     0x7fff62bd1817  dyld (239.4) <7AD43B9B-5CEA-3C7E-9836-A06909F9CA56> /usr/lib/dyld
    0x7fff80c57000 -     0x7fff80c68ff7  libz.1.dylib (53) <42E0C8C6-CA38-3CA4-8619-D24ED5DD492E> /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
    0x7fff826e7000 -     0x7fff82828fff  com.apple.QTKit (7.7.3 - 2826.24) <08E58C71-D16C-3357-989C-780A08994B27> /System/Library/Frameworks/QTKit.framework/Versions/A/QTKit
    0x7fff852d7000 -     0x7fff852d8ff7  libSystem.B.dylib (1197.1.1) <E6BCC031-4342-318C-A1AD-A8E9AEAE716F> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
    0x7fff8b8eb000 -     0x7fff8bbebff7  com.apple.Foundation (6.9 - 1056.16) <24349208-3603-3F5D-95CC-B379616FBEF8> /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
    0x7fff8cf8d000 -     0x7fff8cf9aff0  libbz2.1.0.dylib (29) <0B98AC35-B138-349C-8063-2B987A75D24C> /usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib

Any suggestions how I can activate the game?

[Ters]

The error message seems to claim that SDL2 is missing. You may have installed SDL1, which is what Simutrans traditionally uses. (Simutrans with SDL1 has had poor performance on Macs, so I think SDL2 has become the default lately.)

[jpatt]

Thanks for the reply! I dl SDL2 and when I go to open Simutrans, the terminal opens up and then nothing happens.

[TurfIt]

If you're running it from the .app, then the console is suppressed. Hence you cannot see any error messages Simutrans prints.
Try running from the executable instead. Most likely it's complaining you've not installed a pak correctly.