Hi.

My computer is: Macbook Pro running Monterey on Apple Silicon.

Today I installed LWE version 1.1.1 with some issues... let me explain.

1. The compressed file lwe-macosx.tgz to LWE Installer.app inside /Applications folder didn't run

2. Move the LWE Installer.app to home directory still do not run.

3. Inside the bundle I find bundle.jar file to be able to run it with JavaLauncher, install screen show.

4. Install the lwe in /Applications folder didn't run without issues --jdkhome was used.

5. Install in home directory in ~/Applications folder I was able to use --jdkhome $(/usr/libexex/java_home) to start the application. The project directory was created in home directory.

So it looks to me I need to set --jdkhome parameter to be able to find Java home. On my old Macbook Pro that was never a issue or it has never been a issue to run LogoSoft Comfort on my Apple Silicon machine. I only get some error in console for NSWindow but notthing else.

As always I make lwe to have full access.

I could understand people have issues on the mac platform, but its also looks to me its would be a easy update for Siemens to support newer hardware. 

Doing more research tells me.

The recommended way to distribute java application for Mac is to follow 

_{Packaging a Java App for Distribution on a Mac}

_{https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/packagingAppsForMac.html}

It means bundle executable shouldn't be symbol link. If the jre home use old version of java it should be included in the bundle. In other words the enviroment variable of JAVA_HOME could point to other version and that could be a issue.

The problem with symbol link in a bundle is codesign it means macOS wouldn't let it run. The user exeperience will return nothing. Meaning the user thinks the application is broken. I also made copy of jre and include that inside the bundle that was missing. (check the .../bin/lwe). Now I could run LWE in command line without --jdkhome