Apple Silicon arm64 release

[chromer030]

Describe your feature request

Please provide binary for macOS arm64, likes provided for Linux arm64.
Thanks.

[archseer]

I've tried but I couldn't get the CI build working, it requires cross-compilation since there's no M1 github action runners. Might be resolved once helix is available on homebrew.

If you or anyone can get a working CI configuration I'd be open to accept the change though.

[jdahm]

As a datapoint, I get the following error when using the helix nix flake on my M1 Mac:

error: a 'aarch64-linux' with features {} is required to build '/nix/store/l4r33m9ys148295f3djjys1hf1vxpvap-crates-io-aho-corasick-0.7.18.drv', but I am a 'aarch64-darwin' with features {benchmark, big-parallel, nixos-test}
       … while realising the context of path '/nix/store/46bk939yfxqfpcr2z246pc8kgpynrnhm-nzkj99qdd3mcyasq7hgm1mc3ah43pk9l-source-crate2nix'

When I use the check devshell target in helix I get a different error, this time when compiling tree-sitter:

error: builder for '/nix/store/jr9w79v3nrik4np2ryhrjxvpqa60q2x7-rust_tree-sitter-0.20.4.drv' failed with exit code 1;
       > error occurred: Command "gcc" "-O0" "-ffunction-sections" "-fdata-sections" "-fPIC" "-g" "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" "-arch" "arm64" "-I" "src" "-I" "include" "-Wall" "-Wextra" "-std=c99" "-Wno-unused-parameter" "-o" "/private/tmp/nix-build-rust_tree-sitter-0.20.4.drv-0/tree-sitter-0.20.4/target/build/tree-sitter.out/src/lib.o" "-c" "src/lib.c" with args "gcc" did not execute successfully (status code exit status: 1).

Will investigate further when I find time.

Other refs:

• nix - update flake.nix to better support cross-system eval #1757
• Can't eval aarch64-linux package on x86_64-linux yusdacra/nix-cargo-integration#58

[Dreamacro]

https://www.macstadium.com/opensource Can this help in any way?

[the-mikedavis]

We might be able to use that to run a custom github actions runner. It wasn't initially supported for a while (actions/runner@088caf5) but it looks like actions/runner got M1 support recently: actions/runner@d769477

[yvt]

I managed to get aarch64 CI builds working with cross compilation. Tests can't be run because Rosetta 2 doesn't work in the other way around, though.

• Experimental branch: ad15e7b...yvt:patch/ci-aarch64
• Successful CI run + artifacts: https://github.com/yvt/helix/actions/runs/2549694226

[archseer]

@yvt Would you mind opening up a PR? We can conditionally skip the test runs since it's tested on the regular build at least.

[yvt]

Would you mind opening up a PR?

Done in #3137