Pulse Engine in editor on MacOS Intel

Pulse Physiology Engine
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Hi,

I’m using the latest version of the pulse engine (using it as a submodule in our git repo). Magically it works when I’m building for iOS. But when testing in the just in the editor I got this error :

EntryPointNotFoundException: Allocate assembly:<unknown assembly> type:<unknown type> member:(null)
PulseUnityEngine.BaseAllocate (System.Int32 model, System.String data_dir) (at Assets/Plugins/PulsePhysiologyEngine/unity/Scripts/PulseUnityEngine.cs:56)
Pulse.PulseEngineBase..ctor (Pulse.eModelType m, System.String data_dir) (at <1637df1cd6b9405aa5c4f15c07c179ee>:0)
PulseUnityEngine..ctor (Pulse.eModelType m, System.String data_dir) (at Assets/Plugins/PulsePhysiologyEngine/unity/Scripts/PulseUnityEngine.cs:24)
PulseEngineContainer.Setup (System.String state, System.Int32 sampleEveryNthFrame, System.Action onSetupDone, Pulse.CDM.eSerializationFormat format) (at

I’m on a intel based macbook. This is how the PulseC.dylib looks like. Any clue what I’m doing wrong?

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Are you able to run the VitalsMonitor scene in our Pulse Asset?

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Nope, same error when running the scene. It’s in Unity 2022.3.10f

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Are you building IL2CPP?

Do you have a link.xml in the root of your project?

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Both yes. I have IL2CPP backend and the link.xml file is in the root indeed.

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It seems like the Managed/PulseCSharp.dll is not getting loaded by your system

I am not sure if I need to somehow build that with a different .NET configuration or maybe you need to switch up a .NET setting on your side? Like lowering the version or something?

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Do you mean this .NET setting ?

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I have a intel based mac (but I am typing this on my windows box)

I am running in a 2021.3 3D application

My Build Settings are set to macOS and Intel 64-bit + Apple Silicon

My scripting backend is Mono
Api Compatibility Level is .NET Standard 2.1
I switched to IL2CPP and that worked as well

My PulseCSharp.dll is set to
Auto Reference On
Validate References On
Any Platform On
The rest are off

Editor Settings
Any OS
Any CPU

Windows, Mac, Linux Settings
All are checked
The Information lists Assembly Info Targets .NET 4.x

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So that line is looking for the Allocate definition in the PulseC.dylib, and it’s saying that PulseC.dylib is an unknown assembly for some reason…

Have you tried to check the Load on Startup and restart Unity?

I am not sure why it won’t recognize the assemble of that dylib

So maybe this is ignorance on my part in working with macOS

I am building this dylib on a 2015 mac book pro (Retina, 15-inch) running macOS Monterey Version 12.6.9
Are you using a newer or older macOS?

Would that have a major impact on binary compatibility between macOS versions?

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Maybe this information would help?

I wonder if I have to sign the dylib…ugh

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Well, I was triggered by your comment :

My Build Settings are set to macOS and Intel 64-bit + Apple Silicon

I was on the iOS build settings. Switching back to the the MacOS build settings works.

Do you have any clue if it can work when you are in the ‘iOS’ build settings in the editor? Thanks for the help so far, really appreciated.

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I am not sure

Maybe you can check the macOSi PulseC.dylib to work on any platform and it will run in the editor when you are in iOS mode. But then maybe your build would fail when you try to actually push to your iOS device…