From a23b83314ec82dca5976a412e60e27f154ea0451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Icarus Wings <10465470+TheIcarusWings@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:52:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(desktop): mac start:desktop crash from rewritten
 framework symlinks (#3058)

---
 apps/desktop/scripts/electron-launcher.mjs | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/desktop/scripts/electron-launcher.mjs b/apps/desktop/scripts/electron-launcher.mjs
index 1fc956b39dc9ee74c207930243fc261376300db6..bc1fabae960b52929632d94e3e1dff07c8da8b15 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/scripts/electron-launcher.mjs
+++ b/apps/desktop/scripts/electron-launcher.mjs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export const APP_BUNDLE_ID = isDevelopment
   ? `com.t3tools.t3code.dev.${devBundleIdSuffix || "local"}`
   : "com.t3tools.t3code";
 const APP_PROTOCOL_SCHEMES = isDevelopment ? ["t3code-dev"] : ["t3code"];
-const LAUNCHER_VERSION = 10;
+const LAUNCHER_VERSION = 11;
 const defaultIconPath = join(desktopDir, "resources", "icon.icns");
 const developmentMacIconPngPath = join(repoRoot, "assets", "dev", "blueprint-macos-1024.png");
 
@@ -295,7 +295,11 @@ function buildMacLauncher(electronBinaryPath) {
   }
 
   rmSync(targetAppBundlePath, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  cpSync(sourceAppBundlePath, targetAppBundlePath, { recursive: true });
+  // verbatimSymlinks keeps the framework's relative symlinks intact
+  // (e.g. Resources -> Versions/Current/Resources). Without it cpSync
+  // rewrites them to absolute paths into node_modules, which escape the
+  // bundle and crash sandboxed helper processes (icudtl.dat not found).
+  cpSync(sourceAppBundlePath, targetAppBundlePath, { recursive: true, verbatimSymlinks: true });
   patchMainBundleInfoPlist(targetAppBundlePath, iconPath);
   patchHelperBundleInfoPlists(targetAppBundlePath);
   if (isDevelopment) {
-- 
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