Compile for macOS arm64?

[yamyamyamyamyam]

Hi, just was hoping you could offer a precompiled binary for arm64 macOS in the future. Will probably try to compile it myself but support would be great.

(provided macOS binary does not appear to work with arm64 OBS, and nor does linux aarch64)

[fzwoch]

$ file macos/obs-teleport.so 
macos/obs-teleport.so: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit x86_64 dynamically linked shared library, flags:<NOUNDEFS|DYLDLINK|TWOLEVEL|NO_REEXPORTED_DYLIBS>] [arm64]

If it does not work you need to be more specific why. If it requires an Apple signed binary you would need to do that yourself as I don't have an Apple developer subscription.

[yamyamyamyamyam]

Ah, my mistake. Let me look into it further and see why it isn't loading properly.

[yamyamyamyamyam]

Hmm, I can't seem to get meaningful debug output from OBS; it doesn't appear to even be making an attempt to load the plugin, so frustratingly, I have no error output to work off of. I've inquired with OBS support and will update if I hear back. In the interim, would it be possible for you to provide a non-universal binary with just arm64 so I can test it? My 'hunch' is that for some reason OBS does not like universal binaries.

[fzwoch]

You can use lipo tool to extract architectures from universal binaries. I would be surprised that would be an issue though. That is exactly the purpose of universal binaries.

It could be arm64 is not the correct arch for M1?

[yamyamyamyamyam]

Yeah, extracting it with lipo had no effect.

It could be arm64 is not the correct arch for M1?

Hmm, I'm not sure. arm64/aarch64 are certainly the correct designations for M1 in most usages that I've seen. I suppose technically M1 uses arm64v8 which might be a separate compile target? I feel like that would be very odd if you needed to be that specific, though.

I wish I knew where to go from here; OBS not providing me any output about attempts to load the plugin is frustrating. I am in semi-uncharted territory having compiled OBS myself for arm64, I suppose, but from what I've read, plugins with these custom builds work fine on M1 as long as they've been compiled for arm64. Strange.

fwiw, here's the OBS log: https://obsproject.com/logs/yRG4Bw3t2_iT3rVH

[fzwoch]

You will need this new structure it seems:

OBS.app/Contents/PlugIns/obs-teleport.plugin/Contents/MacOS/obs-teleport.so

This loaded fine for me and it was working, however it kept crashing all over the place for me.

[yamyamyamyamyam]

Thanks. With that structure, the plugin loaded. I could also select the stream coming from my VM. However, the receiver does not appear to be picking up any video.

edit: If I also pick up the stream in the VM, I get the expected video feed, so presumably the feed is being transmitted correctly and the issue here is on the receiving end.

[fzwoch]

It eventually started working for me after setting things up and restarting OBS. Feel free to debug whats happening, but I will probably wait until there are official betas out there.

[fzwoch]

Closing this for now. More things will probably come up when OBS v28 will be released where we may have to change plugin layout and other shenanigans.

[arcreigh]

Hey @fzwoch OBS has officially added support to the master branch for M1 mac's see https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/5155.

Right now us M1 folks are left with no options OBS-NDI folks are currently focused on NDIv5 support. I would be more than happy to help test this out.

[fzwoch]

Try to copy the plugin to ~/Library/Application\ Support/obs-studio/plugins/obs-teleport/bin/obs-teleport.so.

From the code I hope it still picks up plugins from that location. You will probably have to convince Gatekeeper to load the plugin as it is not signed with a registered developer key. If that does not help, you may have to re-sign the plugin yourself with an ad-hoc signature for your local machine.

[arcreigh]

Try to copy the plugin to ~/Library/Application\ Support/obs-studio/plugins/obs-teleport/bin/obs-teleport.so.

From the code I hope it still picks up plugins from that location. You will probably have to convince Gatekeeper to load the plugin as it is not signed with a registered developer key. If that does not help, you may have to re-sign the plugin yourself with an ad-hoc signature for your local machine.

That did the trick!

[yamyamyamyamyam]

Just wanted to note here that I got Teleport to work eventually. The problem was actually with my VM's network settings; I assumed that if the stream was discoverable, there shouldn't be a transmission issue, but after reconfiguring my VM's connection I could successfully get a feed out. Just dropping this here in case anyone else ever has the same issue.