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Things needed to bundle Geany for OSX
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Apple M1 #23

Closed elextr closed 2 years ago

elextr commented 3 years ago

It has been reported on the ML that the standard bundle works on Apple M1 silicon, @techee do you want to add a note in README to the effect that its reported to work but not tested by you (unless you do test on M1 :)

techee commented 3 years ago

I actually have the Mac Mini developer transition kit prototype from Apple which doesn't use M1 but some of their previous ARM chips used on iPad. And I tested Geany something like 9 month ago so it is an old news it works :-).

I also tried compiling the whole app bundle natively for ARM but some of the dependencies in gtk-osx failed to build but I expect it will change once the upstream projects get updated. I don't expect that it will ever be possible to make an universal build (using fat binaries with both ARM and x86 code) because every single dependency would have to be updated to support that and I don't think it's realistic. But for the time being it's just fine to use the x86 version (the reported slow-down compared to native code is around 30% which is no problem for an editor).

techee commented 2 years ago

I created a ARM version of Geany here:

https://download.geany.org/snapshots/geany-1.38_osx_arm64.dmg

Would you give it a try?

techee commented 2 years ago

Since the ARM build seems to work, I'm closing this issue. I've re-uploaded the binaries with some more improvements and an updated icon (also for the x86 build) to the snapshots directory.