M1 Big Sur MacOsx missing postgres binaries

[gtrad]

Hi there,

Big fan of your app server and anvil.works. I've successfully launched several apps on windows and linux builds, however I am having issues with my new mac air with the M1 chip.

After activating the virtual environment, installing anvil-app-server and creating a test app, when I launch I get the following error:

Failed to start built-in Postgres database: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Missing postgres binaries More logs are available in .anvil-data/postgres.log. Some common causes of this problem:

• Are you launching this server as 'root' on a UNIX system? Postgres will not run as root; try launching the server as an ordinary user.
• Are you running this server on an unusual architecture or OS? (Mac OS X/aarch64)

further, when opening the .anvil-data log the following warnings are displayed:

[INFO io.zonky.test.db.postgres.embedded.EmbeddedPostgres] Detected a Darwin aarch64 system [INFO io.zonky.test.db.postgres.embedded.DefaultPostgresBinaryResolver] Detected distribution: 'Unknown' [TRACE io.zonky.test.db.postgres.embedded.DefaultPostgresBinaryResolver] Searching for postgres binaries - location: 'postgres-darwin-arm_64.txz' [ERROR io.zonky.test.db.postgres.embedded.DefaultPostgresBinaryResolver] No postgres binaries were found, you must add an appropriate maven dependency that meets the following parameters - system: Darwin, architecture: arm_64

I suspect this is an issue with the postgressql package and the macosx, however I am far from an expert, I'd love to get any pointers :)

[gtrad]

Hi Meredydd,
I've done some more digging and think it is the version of io.zonky.test.db.postgres.embedded running, as 1.3.0 should now have compatibility with the M1 Rosetta emulator

[Alcampopiano]

Hello folks, I am seeing this same issue with M1s (exact error and logs).

I'm currently undergoing a review for a publication using an Anvil app. Any workaround would be very much appreciated!

[gtrad]

Hello folks, I am seeing this same issue with M1s (exact error and logs).

I'm currently undergoing a review for a publication using an Anvil app. Any workaround would be very much appreciated!

Hi Alcampopiano,

I was able to overcome this by creating my own run time, which I’ve been meaning to pull request - I can upload the custom runtime on my git, which would quickly solve your problem :)

[luxiaolei]

Hello folks, I am seeing this same issue with M1s (exact error and logs). I'm currently undergoing a review for a publication using an Anvil app. Any workaround would be very much appreciated!

Hi Alcampopiano,

I was able to overcome this by creating my own run time, which I’ve been meaning to pull request - I can upload the custom runtime on my git, which would quickly solve your problem :)

Hi gtrad, could you pls instruct me where to find ur custom runtime? thanks:)

[clauslang]

Same issue here. Any news on this?

[meredydd]

This should be resolved in v1.7.0. Can you retest and confirm?

[altryne]

I'm having the same issue, not sure how to proceed. Failed to start built-in Postgres database

[James-Smart]

I seem to be hitting this one as well

[James-Smart]

I forked and managed to get this working. There were two things that needed to be changed. The optional darwin-arm64v8 posttgres dependency needed to be added. Only the linux ones were included. Additionally the postgres version needed to be bumped as the one specified did not have a darwin arm build. (interestingly I note that in the 1.6.6 release of anvil the included postgres is actually newer than the one in 1.7) I only bumped it up to the first version that has a darwin build (there was a version 10 but this one is compiled incorrectly)

[James-Smart]

I went ahead and made a pull request for the required changes.