MacOS support

[zakkak]

MacOS builds should be relatively easy to produce and test, however, there are still some roadblocks in our way.

To my knowledge these are:

• [x] There is no available vanilla build of OpenJDK for MacOS that includes static-libs
• [x] mandrel-packaging is known to have some issues on MacOS (See https://github.com/graalvm/mandrel-packaging/issues/42)
• [x] We lack HW for testing and releasing on MacOS (see https://github.com/graalvm/mandrel/issues/114#issuecomment-1016273406)

Please comment bellow if you are aware of any additional issues.

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[jerboaa]

FYI:

Via Eclipse Temurin there are (untested) Mac OS X static-libs now.

JDK 17: https://github.com/adoptium/temurin17-binaries/releases/tag/jdk-17.0.1%2B12

[doogle-oss]

Anything on this getting traction. Definitely a good thing to move forward with this.

[zakkak]

Anything on this getting traction.

No, not yet. At the moment it looks like we would need to rely on GH actions to provide MacOS releases while Linux and Windows releases are built and tested internally. @Karm WDYT?

[Karm]

Relying on doing Mac releases on GH actions is not an option, so there are no MacOS releases planned at the time of writing.

When (rather than if) that changes, we will update this issue :+1:

[raupachz]

Any updates?

[jerboaa]

I don't think our stance has changed on this one, sorry.

[zakkak]

https://github.com/graalvm/mandrel-packaging/pull/339 enables building Mandrel for MacOS x86. Next step is figuring out if it works on M1 as well. Last, we will need some infrastructure as mentioned in https://github.com/graalvm/mandrel/issues/114#issuecomment-1016273406.

[Karm]

@zakkak Thx for the addition to the mandrel-packaging.

~Releasing without test infrastructure in place is a no go. I would like to avoid any misunderstanding on the front of potentially available released bits.~

My note is redundant. I am sorry. I managed to miss the end of your previous comment :+1:

[Karm]

Mandrel team has the M2 Pro systems now, so we will revisit this issue presently.

[Karm]

We have preview builds, now in testing...

[INFO]  Java version: 21.0.3+9-LTS, vendor version: Mandrel-23.1.3.2-dev49b42155870
[INFO]  Graal compiler: optimization level: 2, target machine: armv8-a
[INFO]  C compiler: cc (apple, arm64, 15.0.0)

[Karm]

@debu999 @raupachz Done: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/quarkus-dev/c/LC11CnPHqTw

[raupach-e2n]

Well done! Congratulations 🥳