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Fascinating. The following error is repeated dozens of times, and does not appear when the qt6 build is launched on my M1 Macbook:


❯ ~ [7m 38s] /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/anki           
Anki starting...
Initial setup...
Running with temporary Qt5 compatibility shims.
Run with DISABLE_QT5_COMPAT=1 to confirm compatibility with Qt6.
Preparing to run...
qt.webenginecontext: 

GLImplementation: core_profile
Surface Type: OpenGL
Surface Profile: CoreProfile
Surface Version: 4.1
Using Default SG Backend: yes
Using Software Dynamic GL: no
Using Angle: no

Init Parameters:
  *  application-name Anki 
  *  browser-subprocess-path /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtWebEngineCore.framework/Helpers/QtWebEngineProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/QtWebEngineProcess 
  *  disable-features DnsOverHttpsUpgrade,ConsolidatedMovementXY,InstalledApp,BackgroundFetch,WebOTP,WebPayments,WebUSB,PictureInPicture 
  *  disable-speech-api  
  *  enable-features TracingServiceInProcess 
  *  enable-threaded-compositing  
  *  gpu-preferences 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 
  *  in-process-gpu  
  *  use-gl core_profile 

Starting main loop...
[61126:48387:1202/084531.121265:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(115)] Error creating context.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.123325:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(115)] Error creating context.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.123344:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(771)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.123353:ERROR:shared_image_stub.cc(470)] SharedImageStub: unable to create context
[61126:48387:1202/084531.123366:ERROR:gpu_channel.cc(449)] GpuChannel: Failed to create SharedImageStub
[61126:48387:1202/084531.124454:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(115)] Error creating context.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.125649:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(115)] Error creating context.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.125670:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(771)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.125676:ERROR:shared_image_stub.cc(470)] SharedImageStub: unable to create context
[61126:48387:1202/084531.125684:ERROR:gpu_channel.cc(449)] GpuChannel: Failed to create SharedImageStub
[61126:48387:1202/084531.127800:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(115)] Error creating context.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.129710:ERROR:gl_context_cgl.cc(115)] Error creating context.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.129726:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(771)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
[61126:48387:1202/084531.129732:ERROR:shared_image_stub.cc(470)] SharedImageStub: unable to create context
[61126:48387:1202/084531.129739:ERROR:gpu_channel.cc(449)] GpuChannel: Failed to create SharedImageStub

This can be temporarily bypassed (as documented on this GitHub Issue for another qt-using project that fails to render on macOS) with the following invocation:

QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu" /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/anki

I’m happy to provide extra debugging feedback when I can, although I won’t have access to this computer for some period of time … if anybody else runs across this issue, I adapted ahihi’s script to “patch” (… sort of) Anki so that you can successfully launch it from the Finder:

Download, set as executable, execute, and rebuild the LaunchServices database:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister\
   -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
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