ye, i already removed the "-verbose" flag, but it's still printing a ton of errors including (but not limited to)

pd_helios: can't load library

...confusingly enough

thanks. i did that and then i tried something that was in the helios documentation, even though it was supposedly for El Capitan, which is not my OS.

installed homebrew from https://brew.sh/
then on a terminal i ran:

brew install libusb 

and that was it. pd now loads helios. (hooray).

however, i still get thousands of errors printed on the post window upon startup. my startup preferences are obviously wrong. is there a template for a neatly organised startup preferences file i can check out to make sure mine looks as similar as that? or at least, what’s the general idea? i mean if there is a search path to /Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra
do i still need to specify other paths for individual libraries such as:

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/ggee
/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/zexy
/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/cyclone

and so on?

many many thanks!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, @jancsika
will try and report back if i succeed

tried instantiating it as [helios], as [pd_helios] to no avail. unless i should try with other paths as the object class...

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/pd_helios/libusb-1.0.0.dylib:
@rpath/libusb-1.0.0.dylib

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/pd_helios/libusb-1.0.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=6d6066fc49fc9c4a1dd5db75d614ea958f61ae67, stripped

error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/install_name_tool: input file: /Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/pd_helios/libusb-1.0.so is not a Mach-O file

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/pd_helios/libusb-1.0.so: is not an object file

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/pd_helios/helios.pd_darwin:

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/pd_helios/helios.pd_darwin:
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1281.100.1)
@rpath/libusb-1.0.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 902.1.0)