MacVim stopped working after update to v. 8.2.1424 (gettext)

[ekortright]

After updating to 8.2.1424 (164), MacVim stopped working. The program runs, but no window is displayed.

When trying to run from the command line, this is what I see:

$ mvim
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/gettext/lib/libintl.8.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/me/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

Until now, I have been using MacVim with the gettext that comes with homebrew:

$ gettext --version
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.21
Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.

[mvilain]

I'm seeing different error on 10.13.6:

$ mvim
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/gettext/lib/libintl.8.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim
Reason: Incompatible library version: Vim requires version 11.0.0 or later, but libintl.8.dylib provides version 10.0.0
Abort trap: 6

[ychin]

There was an issue with the latest release with how the linkage is done and I’ll work to fix it in the next couple days. For now please use 163. I believe I should have reverted the updater to point to 163. Is that not the case?

[ekortright]

I just followed the prompts from MacVim and it installed 164.

Downloaded 163 and that works fine. Thanks.

[ychin]

Right. I think there was roughly 2-3 hours where this slipped through before someone filed the issue and I reverted the version bump so I would need to confirm that’s the case. Sorry about that.

Edit: I tried and confirmed that we are no longer upgrading snapshot-163 to snapshot-164. I think you guys were unlucky and upgraded it in the 2 hour time frame :(

[ychin]

This should be fixed. Snapshot 165 should be out soon, and i added a check to make sure a similar problem (external library linkage) won't show up again.

[ychin]

The release should now be out. Please re-open the issue if it still doesn't work.

https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases/tag/snapshot-165