M1 Macs and LC 9.6.8 RCs and 10.0.0 RCs

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 14:29:10 EDT 2022


In the standalone builder you have always separated Linux 32-bit and 
64-bit builds, and the same with Windows: could you
alter the MacOS standalones so we end up with one INTEL 64-bit 
standalone, and one ARM standalone, rather than a awkward sandwich?

Best, Richmond.

On 20.06.22 17:50, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> On 2022-06-18 21:27, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
>> So, the question now is, is this a macOS problem or is it possible
>> that a standalone could show the wrong setting due to a wrong
>> configuration or so when it is created.
>
> It is a macOS (Finder) bug - I think it was the same when they added 
> 32-bit vs 64-bit, and probably Intel vs PowerPC.
>
> There's a plist entry 'LSArchitecturePriority' which is the order in 
> which the different slices should be used - currently we have x86-64 
> then arm64 and it seems the Finder doesn't use this to determine 
> whether to show the Rosetta box as checked or not when the user hasn't 
> explicitly prodded it in the past (which obviously they won't have 
> done for new apps / those which didn't have the option before!).
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>




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