[chrissotraidis]

A packaged Mac runner looks for Sys at the app root, while SunPad packages it beside the runner in Contents/MacOS. Missing font resources can leave the game at a black screen. Update the Apple runtime pins and lock together so local macOS builds resolve Sys beside the actual executable, following symlinks.

The Mac packager also now uses HAVE_PIPE2=OFF, matching the preparation and mobile scripts. Without it, the macOS 27 SDK enables an API unavailable on the declared macOS 14 target, causing a clean package build to fail in curl.

The runtime fix is merged in chrissotraidis/RecompCore#35, and the real Common-library regression tests are merged in chrissotraidis/ModernGekko#4. The selected source commits remain exactly those reviewed and tested: RecompCore 724054945a and ModernGekko e29496f. iOS/tvOS retain their existing lookup; the tvOS lane pin is unchanged.

Validation

• Final code/build inputs: 4b953bd. Final documentation-only head: 2ec220b.
• Full source suite passes. The bundle and external-symlink failures were reproduced before their fixes; all three CLI/bundle/symlink tests pass afterward, including from a fresh Mac build. Relocated paths containing spaces also pass.
• Empty-directory Mac package build passes (1,545 units). Deep strict code-signature verification passes; frontend, runner and module declare macOS 14, with no Homebrew linkage.
• The exact packaged runner reports Contents/MacOS/Sys, loads the private module without a missing-font error, shuts down normally and leaves its isolated save copy unchanged. This is startup-log evidence, not visual or save/reload acceptance.
• All three runtime-fork CI builds pass at 724054945a: macOS, Linux and Windows. All three final-head SunPad CI checks pass at 2ec220b: source safety/tests, clean iOS runtime/app and clean tvOS runtime/app builds.

This is separate from draft #57’s personal module recipe. The installed iPhone candidate remains available for the maintainer’s deferred save/controls/audio verdict. Actual desktop save/reload, device feature checks and release approval remain separate gates; no release or performance improvement is claimed.