Install on Apple M3 Max

[topdown]

I tried both npm and brew.

After installing, in a fresh terminal I run opencode and I get

jeffrey@Jeffreys-MBP ~ % opencode
zsh: illegal hardware instruction  opencode

[chipit24]

I have an Apple M3 Max MacBook Pro and installed opencode via npm i -g opencode-ai@latest and it runs without issue.

[topdown]

hmmm. I did the same.
A couple times.

I will try again and do some debugging

[thdxr]

can you run which opencode and show me where it is

[topdown]

which opencode
/usr/local/bin/opencode  

Then when I run opencode I get nothing returned in my terminal emulator app

In mac terminal I get

~ % opencode
zsh: illegal hardware instruction  opencode

Bash session

$ opencode
Illegal instruction: 4

[thdxr]

ok so i think that's the one that's brew installed? let me try to recreate i have a macbook air m3

[topdown]

No. I used npm npm i -g opencode-ai@latest

But I have tried both with the same results.

I just checked claude code and it runs from claude: aliased to /Users/jeffrey/.claude/local/claude

Digging deeper I find that its real path is
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/opencode-ai/bin/opencode

[chipit24]

@topdown Did you potentially have https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode installed from before? It's got the same name, though I couldn't get their tool to work properly 😅 Before trying the Better™ opencode, I made sure to remove that one (brew uninstall opencode-ai/tap/opencode).

FWIW, I use mise and which opencode prints this for me:

/Users/robertkomaromi/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.16.0/bin/opencode

[topdown]

@topdown Did you potentially have https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode installed from before? It's got the same name, though I couldn't get their tool to work properly 😅 Before trying the Better™ opencode, I made sure to remove that one (brew uninstall opencode-ai/tap/opencode).

FWIW, I use mise and which opencode prints this for me:

/Users/robertkomaromi/.local/share/mise/installs/node/22.16.0/bin/opencode

No. I have a clean system.
I checked for both that one and this one in Brew and NPM
Both clean.

[Lolleka]

I have the exact same issue. Tried all install sources, but no dice.

[sigginjals]

Same problem here.

[topdown]

Ok, so I forked it.
Tried to install dependencies, got lame errors, so as a guess I updated bun.
Then the dependencies are installed.

The first startup took forever, to the point I thought it failed to do anything.
It asked me for a provider key, I picked Google, gave it my key

Then it installed Go, and a bunch of Go dependencies.

Finally I see the OpenCode screen. But, init does nothing, I do not see any way to switch providers, and sending a message gives me an error

Typing /editor opened Cursor with a md file at some crazy path

So basically there is nothing I can do with OpenCode, its basically useless on my machine currently.

[niwoerner]

Same issue here on the m1 max

[sambradbury]

Similar issue on M4 Max when trying to install with brew

 ~/ brew install sst/tap/opencode
Warning: sst/tap/opencode 0.3.5 is already installed and up-to-date.
To reinstall 0.3.5, run:
  brew reinstall opencode
 ~/ which opencode
/usr/local/bin/opencode
 ~/ opencode auth login
============================================================
Bun v1.2.17 (282dda62) macOS x64
macOS v15.2
CPU: sse42 popcnt
Args:
Features: no_avx2 no_avx

The app just hangs and doesn't do anything when I try to run the auth login command. Trying to install with npm yields the same result.

 ~/ npm i -g opencode-ai@latest

added 2 packages in 2s
 ~/ opencode auth login
============================================================
Bun v1.2.17 (282dda62) macOS x64
macOS v15.2
CPU: sse42 popcnt
Args:
Features: no_avx2 no_avx

[thdxr]

trying to understand the issue - this is only with brew installed versions of opencode?