renpy.log doesn't seem to work on macOS

[greay]

I've defined config.log in my options.rpy file.

But I can't find a file of that name anywhere. I'm on macOS. I've read elsewhere that it's in "the renpy folder" but I don't see anything of the sort in the application's folder, and I can't find anything in ~/Library.

Is there another step I need to take in order for the file to be created?

[Per K Grok]

I've defined config.log in my options.rpy file.

But I can't find a file of that name anywhere. I'm on macOS. I've read elsewhere that it's in "the renpy folder" but I don't see anything of the sort in the application's folder, and I can't find anything in ~/Library.

Is there another step I need to take in order for the file to be created?

OK. Never done that. Don't know what it is for, but got curious, so I tried it.

So in options.rpy I did

define config.log="pklog.txt"

Started the test game and ran some dialog (in the documentation I read that is one thing that goes into this log)

Then when I did not immediately find the log-file in the games folder I ran a search for the pklog.txt-file and I found it directly under the renpy-7.3.2-sdk-folder.

This is on a windows-machine. Hope this is helpful to you anyway.

[greay]

Then when I did not immediately find the log-file in the games folder I ran a search for the pklog.txt-file and I found it directly under the renpy-7.3.2-sdk-folder.

This is on a windows-machine. Hope this is helpful to you anyway.

Unfortunately, no.

The file in question is nowhere to be seen in the renpy-7.3.5-sdk (in my case) folder.

[Per K Grok]

Then when I did not immediately find the log-file in the games folder I ran a search for the pklog.txt-file and I found it directly under the renpy-7.3.2-sdk-folder.

This is on a windows-machine. Hope this is helpful to you anyway.

Unfortunately, no.

The file in question is nowhere to be seen in the renpy-7.3.5-sdk (in my case) folder.

To bad. But at least you now have had it confirmed that that is the place it should pop up in.

[greay]

interestingly, if I build a distribution and run the PC build through WINE the logfile appears. But it never shows up running the macOS build.

So it looks like there's a bug with renpy.log on macOS.

[rames44]

Stupid question, but did you try specifying an absolute path? Something like "/Users/myAccount/Documents/renpy.log"? It's possible the "default location" is one that Ren'py doesn't have permission to write into.

[trooper6]

Stupid question, but did you try specifying an absolute path? Something like "/Users/myAccount/Documents/renpy.log"? It's possible the "default location" is one that Ren'py doesn't have permission to write into.

I just tried that...and it worked!
So I wonder how to do this with relative path?

[rames44]

This is just a guess, but if the default is to write to the SDK folder, that one is probably blocked from non-administrative writing if you put Ren’py in the Applications folder. If Ren’py is put in another area, relative paths may work. But point it at your Documents folder would probably suffice for most purposes. If you don’t want to use a full absolute path, a “user-relative” one might work. Like “~/Documents”

[greay]

moving the SDK folder & application to my home directory doesn't seem to work, unfortunately. I wish there were ... some sort of log I could look at to see what the error precisely is

Absolute paths seem to be the right approach, as a workaround, but that poses another problem – I do need this to work cross-platform.

[trooper6]

I’ll note, just in case, that log.txt isn’t where errors are logged. Log.txt is just the log of the dialogue the user saw. Error.txt is the log of errors, and that shows up in your game directory—also on a Mac.