netvips.native.osx-arm64 for use in Unity

[jsm174]

Hello. I started working on getting VisualPinball.Engine to run on M1 macs using Unity 2021.2.1f1.

As you know from helping us in the past, we put the libraries in a Plugins folder keeping everything organized by architecture.

I noticed that 8.11.4 native does not include the osx-arm64 because of .NET 6. I tried to manually include it with a PackageReference, but it complained as well.

I was able to manually copy the file from the nuget into the Plugins folder, and Unity and NetVips runs fine.

Just to confirm, I checked the architecture:

➜  osx-arm64 git:(master) ✗ file libvips.42.dylib
libvips.42.dylib: Mach-O 64-bit dynamically linked shared library arm64

Is there anyway around this .NET 6 requirement for this type of case?

[jsm174]

I came up with an ugly workaround, hopefully there is a better way to do this:

https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/blob/972caba542c4beaf186bf6ef7e646359f2703903/VisualPinball.Engine/VisualPinball.Engine.csproj#L59-L83

[kleisauke]

Thanks for reporting this! I think that I erroneously assumed that Apple Silicon support would only be available in .NET 6.

Note to myself: I could probably move this: https://github.com/kleisauke/net-vips/blob/d71da511a20667899933f41b66491f2d6b600fcf/build/native/NetVips.Native.nuspec#L32-L33

To the targetFramework="netstandard2.1" group below and remove the entire targetFramework="net6.0" group. Although, I'm not sure if I should also add a custom target file (NetVips.Native.osx-arm64.targets), similar to the x64 build: https://github.com/kleisauke/net-vips/blob/d71da511a20667899933f41b66491f2d6b600fcf/build/native/targets/NetVips.Native.osx-x64.targets#L10 (perhaps that isn't needed on the newer versions of Mono(?))

[jsm174]

Thanks for looking into this. We appreciate it!

I'm not sure how custom targets work. In Visual Studio 2019 .Mac, I'm not sure how you would actually set up osx-arm64 for running / debugging. I know dotnet is using Rosetta.

In Unity, it's definitely not using Rosetta, and is using the arm64 binaries.

I have a branch started here:

https://github.com/freezy/VisualPinball.Engine/tree/update-deps-osx-arm64

[kleisauke]

Those .targets files are only included within the netstandard2.0 or net452 target framework groups, so I guess I can leave that out within the netstandard2.1 group.

Commit https://github.com/kleisauke/net-vips/commit/b2ddba19cb859c4c6235b17c96d0a5269a08da7a on the issue-151 branch moves the macOS ARM64 NuGet package to the netstandard2.1 group, I think that should work for Mono/Unity. If you want to test this, you can use the nightly version of NetVips.Native. Add the https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/net-vips feed in the <packageSources> section of your NuGet.config:

<packageSources>
  <add key="netvips-nightly" value="https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/net-vips" />
</packageSources>

And use NetVips.Native v8.11.4.1 from there. This will be in NetVips.Native v8.12.0, due in a couple of days.

[jsm174]

@kleisauke - Thank you again! Just tried this all out. Upgraded our projects to .netstandard2.1 as well, and it's working great. Since 8.12.0 is close, I'm assuming there won't be a 8.11.4.1 official?

[kleisauke]

A release candidate of NetVips.Native v8.12.0 is now available for testing. https://www.nuget.org/packages/NetVips.Native/8.12.0-rc1

I don't think there would be an official 8.11.4.1 release.

[jsm174]

Great. Thanks. Just updated!

[kleisauke]

NetVips.Native v8.12.1 is now available.