Developer of a tool says I need to run an exe file and chmod it on mac I am trying to use a tool written to help convert output of one program to a file useable by another.
The tool when downloaded is a lot of files and a .exe file.
I assumed this is not the Mac version, but the developer says that it runs on Mac OS and I need to CHMOD +x it and it will run.
I can't even get to the stage of trying that as my mac defaults to use the Unarchiver for  .exe files. I have tried both SwiftDefaultApps and RCdefault apps to try and de-allocate the unarchiver to those files, but neither works.
I've changed the suffix manually to .app and tried to run that but am told &quot;You can’t open the application because it is not supported on this type of Mac.&quot;
I have dug into the terminal and think I have chmod -x the file.
Is there something I should be doing, or is it just that an exe just never going to work on a mac?
I'm a bit confused.
Thanks for any pointers.
I have downloaded the program and can confirm that the exe file is indeed an ordinary exe file - and definitely not a script file for Linux or anything of the sorts.
I would assume that when the author mentions that the project is cross-platform, and allows running on Linux and macOS - he means that you could install the Mono Project and run the program that way.
However executing the exe file via mono like this:
mono dxDD2RenPy.exe

doesn't actually work. It does work with other .NET cross-platform exe files though.