Hi Lidi, Thanks for this tip, it is a great workaround and is making my life a bunch easier! I don't know if this is currently documented but it would be great to do that so other users can use it too :)
Also thanks for bumping the priority on M1-native wheels -- it will be great to have the Python ecosystem supporting M1 natively going forward and grpc is an important piece in the puzzle. All the best, Philipp. On Monday, March 7, 2022 at 3:53:16 PM UTC-8 Lidi Zheng wrote: > Hi Philipp, > > Thanks for writing up the good summary about the challenges we have around > Apple Silicon. > > I don't have a solution. But I can contribute following info: Apple is > introducing "Universal Binary" to bundle binaries for arm64 and x86_64 into > 1. Read more: > https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/building-a-universal-macos-binary > . > > M1 users can try to use `arch -x86_64 <command>` to use x86_64 binaries as > Apple intended. I manually validated that this workaround is functional. > > We do realize that this workaround is not native to normal Python > workflow. We will bump up the priority to ship M1-native wheels. > > > On Monday, March 7, 2022 at 1:37:49 PM UTC-8 Philipp Moritz wrote: > >> Dear gRPC Maintainers, >> >> in my experience it is presently still very challenging to get gRPC for >> Python >> working on Apple's M1 Platform ("Apple Silicon"). There have been various >> user >> issues on github (see [1][2][3][4][5][6] for a partial collection of the >> issues) >> regarding this, so I think many other members of the open source community >> are facing very similar challenges. >> >> This becomes increasingly more important as more open source projects are >> building on top of gRPC, and each of these projects is inheriting all the >> challenges around getting Python gRPC working on M1. >> >> The issues are mainly about compiling gRPC and its dependencies (including >> boringssl, zlib etc.) from the provided gRPC Python source distibutions. >> One possibility >> to make this massively easier would be for Google/the gRPC team to >> provide binary >> wheels for Python gRPC on M1 -- this would completely remove this set of >> friction >> points for everybody. Currently there are lots of different workarounds >> that all >> break in subtle and frustrating ways on different configurations. >> >> I'm specifically asking on behalf of the Ray project ( >> https://github.com/ray-project/ray), >> currently we have to provide specialized instructions [7] to support M1 >> because there >> are no gRPC M1 wheels (we basically have to fall back on conda's binary >> distribution, >> which forces everybody to use conda). >> >> You could improve the lives of everybody relying on Python gRPC on M1 >> greatly by >> shipping M1 gRPC wheels on pypi, so people won't need to worry about >> getting a >> working gRPC distribution. >> >> Just wanted to get the discussion started and make sure this is on your >> radar and >> check if there are plans for supporting it :) >> >> I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for making a lot >> of high quality >> open source software available (e.g. gRPC, absl, bazel, K8s, TensorFlow) >> -- these are all >> great to use, extremely well engineered and very useful enhancements of >> the >> open source ecosystem! >> >> All the best and thanks for your help, >> Philipp. >> >> [1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/25993 >> [2] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/25082 >> [3] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/28449 >> [4] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/24846 (similar problems for Ruby) >> [5] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/26155 >> [6] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/24390 >> [7] >> https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/installation.html?highlight=M1#m1-mac-apple-silicon-support >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to grpc-io+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/7348a195-14ce-4ac7-96cd-9d6630450356n%40googlegroups.com.
