[L2Ork-dev] Mac M1 port?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:50 AM Mikael Flarup Bagger
<mikael.bagger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok thanks for your informative reply :-) I'm not as such a developer, only some sort of a hobby coder, and I have zero knowledge of Purr Data sources, so I'm afraid I can't help with this. But if you ever get to release a M1 build, I'll be happy to test and file bug reports, if necessary :-)
>
> I've only just started using Purr Data on my M1, haven't done some serious patching yet, but it seems to run ok as it is, only with occasional crashes on startup.

Definitely keep an eye on any patterns that cause the crashes you are
seeing. That may be related to the M1, but it could also be due to a
general bug.

Best,
Jonathan

>
> Regards,
> Mikael
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 11:06 AM Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mikael,
>>
>> Well, I guess that the main obstacle is that none of the core developers has a Mac M1 to do the port. I know that the latest version of the source compiles without any hitches on arm64 Linux systems, but the Mac build probably needs to be adjusted for this architecture.
>>
>> The other issue is the availability of nw.js builds for the architecture. There are several open tickets on this:
>>
>> https://github.com/LeonardLaszlo/nw.js-armv7-binaries/issues/16
>> https://github.com/LeonardLaszlo/nw.js-armv7-binaries/issues/42
>> https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/7620
>>
>> The latter mentions a build of nw.js 0.50.1 for the M1, but we're currently using 0.28.1 for most of our builds, and switching to a much later version will likely cause regressions in the JS part of the application which would need to be fixed first.
>>
>> So there's quite a bit of work ahead of us, even if one of us can get his hands on a Mac M1. If you are a developer and familiar with the Purr Data sources, you can help to make it happen, though. :)
>>
>> Albert
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 3:03 PM Mikael Flarup Bagger <mikael.bagger at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Any news on a native build for the Mac M1? Purr Data for Intel seemingly runs ok translated via Rosetta 2, but sometimes crashes during startup
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