Cannot start an external process on mac

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I’m successfully using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start() to start my external mono executable on windows. However it fails on mac. I’m not getting any error, simply nothing at all happens.

I tried doing it the following way:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("mono", "/path/program.exe");

Also I’ve tried opening terminal like the following (which also failed):

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Terminal");

The only thing I was able to do is launch the Terminal in the following way:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("open", "-a Terminal");

Any ideas? I would really appreciate any help.

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An .exe file is normally a Windows executable, which will not run on a Mac. Mac apps are bundles, not programs per se, so you need to specify the actual executable, rather than just the name. Terminal would normally be at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal

–Eric

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Thanks, but why mono won’t start? It’s the actual executable, located at “/usr/bin/mono”.