Hi,
I have tried to get the Steam Workshop to compile under MacOS and Linux, though there have been some issues with the process.
If you wish to install mods and use the modtools, they are available on Github, and mods can still be downloaded from the Steam workshop by subscribing to them - they just won't be automatically installed.

If I were to fix the issues I was having with Linux/MacOS, then it would be possible to push an update, though the final decision is up to MB Saunders.
(I'm only labelled as a developer for error reports as well as for the Workshop specific content)
(Also, there's been a few asking about it, not just you^^)

Yeah, when I was searching a way to solve this I've seen the github version mentioned, and I've even installed it, but I didn't know that the Workshop still downloads the files, since they did not appear in the mod manager, nor in the "game/mods" folder.

Now I know that the workshop has its own folder in steamapps. Maybe I should make a guide for Mac and Linux users... Anyways, thanks for the help!

I want ask one more thing: the github page is still this one https://github.com/AWSW-Modding/AWSW-Modtools right? Because the current version definitely excludes linux support, In the bootstrap.rpy, the second line checks whether renpy that is being run is the windows version, and if not, it doesn't do anything.

Although, if I understand it correctly, something else replaces this file as the first step in loading the modloader, but still if I just copy over the files in the repository root over to the game folder, the game just constantly restarts.

Plus, the installation docs is outdated, and gives a download link for a version that is so old that it does not work with any mods, except for the ones it comes with.

That is the correct version of the tools - I must have made an error when syncing them with the Stream version and remove that check if we're under GitHub rather than Steam.

If you remove that line as I'm suspecting you have done, I'm guessing it should work but this doesn't appear to be the case. I'm not sure why about this, could you copy the errors printed when launching through the command line (using the .py file and the bundled python installation)

I'll update the readme later today to point to the up to date installation instructions - I hadn't noticed they were still pointing at the old version

I've opened an issue on the github page which explains how I was able to make it run.

Basically it happens when in the modconfig.py, the part where the modloader tries to import ssl (line 212), it imports a Windows version, because a wine process appears. It may be caused by the game/steam_workshop folder which does contain some windows stuff (AWSWSteam.dll and gnugpg/gpg.exe).

Since it fails, the modloader assumes that Steam is updating and tries to restart the game, which will fail at the exact same point causing an infinite loop of restarts.

I've just made a new commit with some changes which should fix the issue. Could you say if using the new version of the modtools on Github is working for you?

Loading mods definitely works now. Although, the "add mod from github" option opens a dialog window about not having an internet connection and the "fetch most recent modtools" option gives the follwing ssl exception: "urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed" (I don't know if this is to be expected, but in any case, these two functions aren't essential to me). I could provide a traceback if needed.

That should now be fixed.