macOS setup documentation #67
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| ## macOS considerations | ||
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| For the time being, MonoGame requires that you install the x64 version of the .NET SDK even if you are running on an Apple Silicon mac. It is also required that [Rosetta](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211861) is enabled. |
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Even with Rosetta emulation, the mgcb will fail to build Textures and SpriteFonts due to the freeimage and freetype libs needing to be built for the M1/M2 architecture.
There are workarounds that some have used such as doing a brew install of both libs and creating a symnlink for them
We should rebuild those libraries with Apple Silicon support, the setup on macOS and Linux is already convoluted enough. I'll try to setup that in the way @harry-cpp initiated with Github Actions for other libs. |
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@AristurtleDev and I already set them up ^^ |
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The links in case you were wondering: |
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You're always a step ahead (or I'm lagging). So all we need is updating the references? (and make sure that SharpFont can load FreeType properly) |
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Yea, the references packed with the mgcb NuGet need to be updated to include the the apple silicon built libs. That still won't resolve current user issue though until a new MonoGame release is done, so the information about it should probably still be included in the macOS consideration section written for the page until then. |
This is an attempt to address issues such as this one: MonoGame/MonoGame#7982