On 11/26/2020 4:26 PM, Keith McKay wrote:
Hi,
I'm planning in the next few weeks to retire my 2012 16GB Mac mini which
has served me well with ConTeXt (and other software) over these past few
years. I was planning on getting the new entry level MAC min M1 with 8GB
unified memory but I see that there will be no ConTeXt binaries for
these new M1 chip Macs. Would it be possible for a ConTeXt user like
myself to build the binaries on my proposed new Mac? I'm not a computer
professional.
At some point yes (because once stable the code will be in the
distribition) but even then you probably need to mess with compilers
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/building_a_universal_macos_binary
Maybe Mojca has to configure the build to either generate arm bins (in
addition) or universal apple bins (of course these are larger).
We actually discussed it before but apple has been kind of secretive
about all this. Of course, if they care about luatex cs support they
could send an M1 mini to Mojca for the compile farm for some real testing.
Btw, aren't intel bins supposed to run on the M1 in some emulation mode?
Hans
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