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Is there any chance for the 0.20 release to also include an official macOS arm build?
i was recently granted access to a m1 machine, but my time has been limited. and the time that i do have, i've been spending it working on getting a freecad build built on a big sur box and being able to distribute a FreeCAD.app bundle that will run on macos 10.13 to the latest version. this has proven more difficult than i had originally planned, but have made some recent headway.
presently i'm using a macos vm to build and distribute the macos FreeCAD.app mac app bundles hosted on the homebrew-freecad tap. since the builds are built on macos mojave they will run on any version of macos mojave and newer. if you have an m1 mac then you should 🤞 be able to run the FreeCAD.app bundle that i'm distributing via the homebrew-freecad tap via Rosetta 2. that is something i haven't tested myself yet. as i'm more interested (when i have available time) to build on big sur and make certain the release will run on macos high sierra (10.13) and newer.
i'm choosing to build on big sur because once i get a working build on big sur and it can run on macos high sierra and newer with the issues ironed out i'll attempt to circle back around and see if i can build a native arm build of FreeCAD.app using the same big sur vm.
the major limitations at this time i believe are that freecad doesn't support qt6 (that i'm aware of) i think there's a forum thread about that. and i don't qt5 supports apple aarch64 ie m1 procs. so using features like the start workbench won't work because they rely on qtwebengine which is dependent on qt5 which qt5 never fully supported m1 processors, maybe that has changed but i haven't fully looked in to. so to get all the bells and whistles with freecad one would need to either get qtwebengine v5 working with m1 or update the freecad src to work with qt v6.2 as i believe that is the version that supports all the features of m1 procs. or you can selectively disable certain features of freecad. if you look at the freecad formula in the homebrew freecad tap you'll see where there is an option to disable the qtwebengine during the build so you may be able to build a native m1 FreeCAD.app bundle. (not something i've tested).
i hope all this helps, and i wish i had unlimited amount of time to make this stuff happen unfortunately i don't so i try to get to things when i can.
This has proven more difficult than i had originally planned, but have made some recent headway.
Are the difficulties shared in a ticked somewhere?
If you have an m1 mac then you should 🤞 be able to run the
FreeCAD.appbundle that i'm distributing via the homebrew-freecad tap via Rosetta 2.
I can confirm the weekly build at least working on Monterey via Rosetta 2.
the major limitations at this time i believe are that freecad doesn't support qt6 (that i'm aware of) i think there's a forum thread about that. and i don't qt5 supports apple aarch64 ie m1 procs.
I think I read there is a qt5 backport by now. Not sure to what extend this works though.
i hope all this helps, and i wish i had unlimited amount of time to make this stuff happen unfortunately i don't so i try to get things when i can.
Much appreciate sharing all the details.
the major limitations at this time i believe are that freecad doesn't support qt6 (that i'm aware of) i think there's a forum thread about that.
Indeed. We're not there yet. Most likely we will go full speed ahead on Qt6 after v0.20 is released. Here's the forum thread: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=65089
Conda-folge is also slowly getting closer to osx_arm support. qt is already available for osx-arm64. I am currently working on pyside2 to be updated to qt5.15 + osxarm64. Once we have pyside2 available for osx-arm64 I think it should be possible to update pivy too. After pivy is done it should be possible to compile freecad for osx_arm64. This is at least the roadmap for conda/conda-forge. Once this is done it should be possible to create a bundle for osx_arm64.
pyside2-osx-arm64: https://anaconda.org/freecad/pyside2/files?version=5.15.5 pivy-osx-arm64: https://anaconda.org/freecad/pivy/files
what's next?
Not sure, I will try. Maybe we need to use occt 7.6 as I am not sure if there are osx-arm packages for Occt 7.5. If so we need to use the internal smesh and netgen x.y. Not sure what is a good combination... @donovaly
@ipatch have you heard of any 3rd party deps needed (beside what looooo is postulating above) for ARM support ?
unfortunately i would not know. i don't have access to a m1 (ARM) based mac. i had limited access to a box @chennes setup but the connection to it was spotty at best and i messaged him several times on gitter without a response.
@ipatch have you heard of any 3rd party deps needed (beside what looooo is postulating above) for ARM support ?
Forum user @doia (who appears to be Github user @j-wiedemann) was able to successfully build FreeCAD 0.20 development versions for M1 Mac. I had used his info to successfully build on my M1 MacBook Pro as well, but for some reason it stopped working a couple of months ago. He might be able to offer advice.
Forum user @Doia (who appears to be Github user @j-wiedemann)
No, it is not true. I'm rockn on the forum.
I was able to compile freecad for osx-arm64 via conda-packages. To install and test with conda:
conda create -n freecad_test freecad -c conda-forge -c freecad/label/dev
conda activate freecad_test
freecad
OCCT is now 7.6 smesh is not working as expected. Result in non working fem workbench.
lots of work to do :)
@DOIA here ;-)
My arm64 build pipeline broke as well. Using Python 3.9 gives me errors during cmake setup on Pivy and Pyside2, resulting in some weird /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1026:18: error: unknown type name 'Py_complex'; did you mean '_Complex'? error during build.
Using Python 3.10 collides with the homebrew installed boost-python3 library, as this is looking for python 3.9 during cmake setup.
So, starting from zero setup.
@dirkolbrich For the record, I'm getting that same error on my current Intel builds as well.
linking @ageeye homebrew repo here as he managed to create a working arm64 build. Haven't digested the brew formulae yet.
https://github.com/ageeye/homebrew-freecad/releases/tag/M1_2022_07
Ok, using Python 3.10 (with an updated boost-python3 using Python 3.10) still leaves me with an error for Py_complex as mentioned above.
Here is the report from the cmake setup (all fine) and the error during build:
➜ freecad-build python3 --version
Python 3.10.5
➜ freecad-build cmake \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
-DBUILD_ENABLE_CXX_STD=C++17 \
-Wno-dev \
-DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/bin \
-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/Frameworks/Python.framework/Headers \
-DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/libpython3.10.dylib \
-DBUILD_FEM=OFF \
-DBUILD_WEB=OFF \
-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$PREFIX_PATH" \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="./.." \
../freecad-source
-- Compiler: AppleClang, version: 13.1.6.13160021
-- Force BOOST_PP_VARIADICS=1 for clang
-- prefix: /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD
-- bindir: bin
-- datadir: share
-- docdir: share/doc/FreeCAD
-- includedir: include
-- libdir: lib
-- cmake: 3.23.2
-- BUILD_MESH_PART requires BUILD_SMESH to be ON, but it is ""
-- BUILD_OPENSCAD requires BUILD_MESH_PART to be ON, but it is "OFF"
-- BUILD_START requires BUILD_WEB to be ON, but it is "OFF"
-- Detected Homebrew install at /opt/homebrew
-- PyCXX found:
-- Headers: /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src
-- Sources: /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX
-- Version: 6.2.8
-- -- Found OCE/OpenCASCADE version: 7.6.2
-- -- OCE/OpenCASCADE include directory: /opt/homebrew/include/opencascade
-- -- OCE/OpenCASCADE shared libraries directory: /opt/homebrew/lib
-- Found Boost: /opt/homebrew/lib/cmake/Boost-1.79.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found suitable version "1.79.0", minimum required is "1.55") found components: filesystem program_options regex system thread date_time
-- Coin3D libraries found
-- Found Spnav: /opt/homebrew/lib/libspnav.dylib
-- Shiboken2Config: Using default python: .abi3
-- SHIBOKEN_PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS computed to value: '/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/Frameworks/Python.framework/Headers'
-- SHIBOKEN_PYTHON_LIBRARIES computed to value: '-undefined dynamic_lookup'
-- libshiboken built for Release
-- ===============================================
PySide2 Python module found at /opt/homebrew/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PySide2.
===============================================
=====================================================
Matplotlib not found, Plot module won't be available.
=====================================================
-- Platform is 64-bit, set -D_OCC64
-- [E57] Revison ID: E57Format-2.2.1-arm64-darwin
-- [E57] Building static library
-- setting gcc options: -Wall -Werror -Wno-deprecated -pedantic-errors
-- Found Boost: /opt/homebrew/lib/cmake/Boost-1.79.0/BoostConfig.cmake (found version "1.79.0") found components: python310
-- found Boost: 1_79
-- boost-incude dirs are: /opt/homebrew/include
-- boost-python lib is:
-- boost_LIBRARY_DIRS is: /opt/homebrew/lib
-- Boost_LIBRARIES is: Boost::python
-- area module (for Path Workbench) will be installed to: lib
-- Performing Test _flag_found
-- Performing Test _flag_found - Success
-- Performing Test _flag_found
-- Performing Test _flag_found - Success
--
==============
Summary report
==============
-- Build type: Release
-- Compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ (13.1.6.13160021)
-- Flags: -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wno-write-strings -Wno-undefined-var-template
-- Standard: Requires C++17
-- Python: 3.10.5 [/opt/homebrew/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/python3.10] [.abi3]
-- PCL: not enabled
-- pybind11: not enabled
-- Boost: 1.79.0
-- XercesC: 3.2.3 [/opt/homebrew/lib/libxerces-c.dylib] [/opt/homebrew/include]
-- ZLIB: 1.2.11
-- PyCXX: 6.2.8 [/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src]
-- OCC: 7.6.2 [TKFillet;TKMesh;TKernel;TKG2d;TKG3d;TKMath;TKIGES;TKSTL;TKShHealing;TKXSBase;TKBool;TKBO;TKBRep;TKTopAlgo;TKGeomAlgo;TKGeomBase;TKOffset;TKPrim;TKSTEPBase;TKSTEPAttr;TKSTEP209;TKSTEP;TKHLR;TKFeat] [/opt/homebrew/lib] [/opt/homebrew/include/opencascade]
-- SMESH: do not build
-- NETGEN: not enabled
-- SWIG: 4.0.2
-- Eigen3 3.4.0
-- Qt5Core: 5.15.5
-- Qt5Network: 5.15.5
-- Qt5Xml: 5.15.5
-- Qt5XmlPatterns: 5.15.5
-- Qt5Widgets: 5.15.5
-- Qt5PrintSupport: 5.15.5
-- Qt5OpenGL: 5.15.5
-- Qt5Svg: 5.15.5
-- Qt5UiTools: 5.15.5
-- Qt5Concurrent: 5.15.5
-- Qt5WebKitWidgets: not needed (BUILD_WEB)
-- Qt5WebEngineWidgets: not needed (BUILD_WEB)
-- Designer plugin: not built per user request (BUILD_DESIGNER_PLUGIN)
-- Shiboken2: 5.15.5 [/opt/homebrew/lib/cmake/Shiboken2-5.15.5] [/opt/homebrew/include/shiboken2;/opt/homebrew/opt/[email protected]/Frameworks/Python.framework/Headers]
-- PySide2: 5.15.5 [/opt/homebrew/include/PySide2]
-- PySide2Tools: [/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/bin/uic] [/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/bin/rcc]
-- Freetype: 2.12.1
-- OpenGL: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework
-- OpenGLU: [/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework][/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework]
-- Coin3D: 4.0.0 [/opt/homebrew/lib/libCoin.dylib] [/opt/homebrew/include]
-- Pivy: 0.6.6
-- SPNAV: [/opt/homebrew/lib/libspnav.dylib] [/opt/homebrew/include]
-- Matplotlib: not found
-- Rift: not enabled (BUILD_VR)
-- Doxygen: 1.9.4
-- Language: English
-- Coin3D_DOC: not found
=================================================
Now run 'cmake --build /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-build' to build FreeCAD
=================================================
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-build
The build stops with the following error:
[ 9%] Building CXX object src/Gui/CMakeFiles/FreeCADGui.dir/Application.cpp.o
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/Gui/Application.cpp:43:
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-build/src/App/DocumentObjectPy.h:7:
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-build/src/App/ExtensionContainerPy.h:7:
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-build/src/App/PropertyContainerPy.h:7:
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-build/src/Base/PersistencePy.h:7:
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-build/src/Base/BaseClassPy.h:7:
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/Base/PyObjectBase.h:56:
In file included from /Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Objects.hxx:42:
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1026:18: error: unknown type name 'Py_complex'; did you mean '_Complex'?
operator Py_complex() const
^~~~~~~~~~
_Complex
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1026:18: warning: '_Complex' is a C99 extension [-Wc99-extensions]
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1026:18: warning: plain '_Complex' requires a type specifier; assuming '_Complex double'
operator Py_complex() const
^
double
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1031:35: error: unknown type name 'Py_complex'; did you mean '_Complex'?
Complex &operator=( const Py_complex &v )
^~~~~~~~~~
_Complex
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1031:35: warning: '_Complex' is a C99 extension [-Wc99-extensions]
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1031:35: warning: plain '_Complex' requires a type specifier; assuming '_Complex double'
Complex &operator=( const Py_complex &v )
^
double
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1028:20: error: use of undeclared identifier 'PyComplex_AsCComplex'
return PyComplex_AsCComplex( ptr() );
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1033:18: error: use of undeclared identifier 'PyComplex_FromCComplex'
set( PyComplex_FromCComplex( v ), true );
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1793:31: error: use of undeclared identifier 'Py_UNICODE'
typedef std::basic_string<Py_UNICODE> unicodestring;
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1794:12: error: unknown type name 'Py_UNICODE'
extern Py_UNICODE unicode_null_string[1];
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1983:15: error: unknown type name 'Py_UNICODE'
Char( Py_UNICODE v )
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2021:26: error: unknown type name 'Py_UNICODE'
Char &operator=( Py_UNICODE v )
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1990:79: error: unknown type name 'Py_UNICODE'
: Object( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, const_cast<Py_UNICODE*>( v.data() ),1 ), true )
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1990:94: error: member reference base type 'const Py::unicodestring' (aka 'const int') is not a structure or union
: Object( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, const_cast<Py_UNICODE*>( v.data() ),1 ), true )
~^~~~~
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:1990:46: error: use of undeclared identifier 'PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND'
: Object( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, const_cast<Py_UNICODE*>( v.data() ),1 ), true )
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2010:78: error: unknown type name 'Py_UNICODE'
set( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, const_cast<Py_UNICODE*>( v.data() ), 1 ), true );
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2010:93: error: member reference base type 'const Py::unicodestring' (aka 'const int') is not a structure or union
set( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, const_cast<Py_UNICODE*>( v.data() ), 1 ), true );
~^~~~~
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2010:45: error: use of undeclared identifier 'PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND'
set( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, const_cast<Py_UNICODE*>( v.data() ), 1 ), true );
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2016:13: error: unknown type name 'Py_UNICODE'
Py_UNICODE v( v_ );
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2017:45: error: use of undeclared identifier 'PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND'
set( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, &v, 1 ), true );
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2023:45: error: use of undeclared identifier 'PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND'
set( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, &v, 1 ), true );
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2116:23: error: unknown type name 'Py_UNICODE'
String( const Py_UNICODE *s, int length )
^
/Users/dirkolbrich/FreeCAD/freecad-source/src/CXX/Python3/Objects.hxx:2117:53: error: use of undeclared identifier 'PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND'
: SeqBase<Char>( PyUnicode_FromKindAndData( PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND, s, length ), true )
^
fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]
4 warnings and 20 errors generated.
make[2]: *** [src/Gui/CMakeFiles/FreeCADGui.dir/Application.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/Gui/CMakeFiles/FreeCADGui.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
sh -c 'cmake --build .' 66,67s user 21,18s system 577% cpu 15,212 total
Any ideas what the reason could be?
Side note: I updated boost-python3 to use python 3.10 by creating a local homebrew formulae:
- create a stub formulae with a new name indicating the used python version
brew create --set-name [email protected] - this should open Vim with a newly created stub formula, enter
:qato save this stub formula in Vim - you can find this newly create formula in the local homebrew source directory under
/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/[email protected] - open this formula file and delete all code
- I forked the official homebrew-core formulae for boost-python3 and changed the dependency from [email protected] to [email protected], you can find the raw code here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dirkolbrich/homebrew-core/boost-python3/Formula/boost-python3.rb
- copy all code from this file and insert into the local
[email protected]file - install the newly build [email protected]
brew install --build-from-source [email protected] - check if installed correctly
brew info [email protected]
osx-arm bundles are available :) please test. I still have to do the builds manually, but I am working on cross-compiling so we have a fully automated weekly build for osx-arm64 https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle/releases/tag/weekly-builds
also the osx-bundle (and the AppImage) was updated to occt7.6 / qt5.15 (finally). There is no need for the software-gl switch to make the start-wb work. So feel free to test :)
also the osx-bundle (and the AppImage) was updated to occt7.6
7.6 or 7.6.2 ?
also the osx-bundle (and the AppImage) was updated to occt7.6
7.6 or 7.6.2 ?
7.6.2
hmm conda osx-arm builds are still somewhat beta I guess. But I am not going to add a osx-arm64 bundle for freecad 0.20. I will try to do this for 0.21 or 0.1 or whatever the next version is named.
Hi,
I tried FreeCAD_weekly-builds-31483-2022-12-31-conda-macOS-arm-py311.dmg on M1 mac without Rosetta 2 installed and it failed to execute. Budle itself looks like native but execution failed with the 'You need to install rosetta' message.
I also tried FreeCAD_weekly-builds-31641-2023-01-22-conda-macOS-x86_64-py310.dmg. Despite its name, it is probably universal and failed to execute with no rosetta message too.
Any updates to this? It's still an issue and the only decent performing build is that single arm build from December.
This is still the case with the 2032-07-xx arm files and I still refuse to install Rosetta ..
What works for me is to start the FreeCAD binary from the terminal (for convenience with symbolic link..)
bin/freecad -> /Applications/FreeCAD-2023-07-10.app/Contents/Resources/bin/freecad
When starting the first time it takes a while and then MacOS refuses with "unknown developer" message. Open System settings (? guessing the name here since I don't use the English language setting) and allow the binary to be executed (somewhere in the security section, scroll down and there is the message opening FreeCAD was refused and it offers the "allow anyway" button)
Then next start from terminal works fine ... (well, not the nice FreeCAD icon but otherwise seems to work flawlessly for me)
