Native apple silicon support

[anonymousaga]

Could we get a server app that supports apple silicon natively or is a universal binary? I am noticing that intel apps use a large amount of ram (around 500 MB) at idle, while native apps consume closer to 200mB at idle. Many thanks for considering my request.

[zlshames]

From what I understand, apple silicon should be supported. We have a handful of users utilizing m1 macs. Is there a specific issue you are having or just high memory utilization?

[anonymousaga]

It is working with rosetta, just high RAM usage. I was wondering if I could somehow build it myself for native apple silicon or if you could release an apple silicon binary.

[zlshames]

According to this article, it hopefully should just be a buid configuration: https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon

[anonymousaga]

I'm quite unfamiliar with npm, yarn, & electron, so do you think you can try changing this parameter & rebuilding? Thanks in advance. I'd be happy to test for bugs in the m1 version if you'd like.

[zlshames]

I'm quite unfamiliar with npm, yarn, & electron, so do you think you can try changing this parameter & rebuilding? Thanks in advance. I'd be happy to test for bugs in the m1 version if you'd like.

Sorry, I was away last week and havent had a chance to rebuild it. It seems like I know what to do, but just need to implement it. I'll include the build in the next release of the app. Are you ok with that?

[anonymousaga]

Yeah, that would be great! Should I close this now or after the update? Thanks.

[zlshames]

Yeah, that would be great! Should I close this now or after the update? Thanks.

nope, i'll close it when it's officially implemented. thanks

[zlshames]

@anonymousaga so I was able to build for arm64 (apple silicon), however, I have a few things to note:

1. Would you be willing to test it?
2. binaries that we rely on such as ngrok or cloudflare may or may not work (untested). But maybe you can help test.

[anonymousaga]

Yes, i would be willing to test. I use ngrok for the app.

[zlshames]

Yes, i would be willing to test. I use ngrok for the app.

are you in our discord?

[anonymousaga]

No, should i join?

[zlshames]

No, should i join?

yes please, it will make communications much easier

[anonymousaga]

Ok, i am in there as cos(A+B)=cosA*cosB-sinA*sinB#1100

[zlshames]

Any updates? This was 1.5 years ago and it's still being distributed as intel only.

I think I would need an Apple Silicon mac to build it, and I don't have one