[FR] Universal build for M1 support?

[FallenChromium]

Hi there! I loved the design of the app ♥️
One of the problems I've encountered is that it runs under Rosetta 2 on my laptop, which is undesirable, mainly because smoothness suffers and so does the battery life. Is there any way to compile Rust+Dart app into a Universal app?

[appflowy]

@FallenChromium Absolutely yes, but the size of the application will be larger. I can build one for M1. Please let me know how you think about it.

[FallenChromium]

It's absolutely fine to have 2 separate releases for each architecture (like most utils on Homebrew do, anyway), so I think it's a viable solution.

That said, it's always a compromise. I can see Universal App being easier to distribute but more painful to build (especially in an automated fashion). Separating targets and release products can also be a pain in the back, especially when other arches and\or platforms will join (win_x64, win_arm64, linux_x64, linux_arm64, you probably already imagined that giant GitHub Releases file list 🤣)

[pdckxd]

Seems flutter doesn't support build application for native Apple M1 chip. Below wiki page shows that M1 can run X86_64 application through Rosetta2 at this moment. So you will see Intel arch in "Activity Monitor" when running appflowy on MacOS

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Developing-with-Flutter-on-Apple-Silicon

Compiled Intel macOS binaries work on Apple Silicon without change thanks to the Rosetta 2 translation environment, which converts x86_64 instructions to ARM64 equivalents.
We also plan to offer support for compilation directly to ARM64, as well as universal binaries that combine x86_64 and ARM64 assets. Issue 60113 is the umbrella bug tracking this work.

[ioiioo]

I have the same appeal, I hope I can have M1 version applications.

[lvelvee]

kindly support native arm arch pls

[WATERMELOUN3]

Is there any news about native ARM build support ?
In the documentation in Building on MacOS -> Building in release mode, there is arm64 command, but it still doesn't work.

[ghost]

Any update about this? since flutter v3 already support apple silicon without rosetta
ps: flutter/website#7119 (comment)

[Lewiscowles1986]

It seems Flutter recently released apple silicon support. I hope it's generic ARM64 so I can run on M1 Studio as well as low-end devices like the raspberry pi.

Links:

• https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Developing-with-Flutter-on-Apple-Silicon
• ☂️ Add support for ARM macOS as a target flutter/flutter#60113
• Add Mac M1 ARM machines to the prod pool flutter/flutter#87508

[Lewiscowles1986]

If there are tests or it's a matter of configuring a build, I'm in BST London, and happy to take the time to use my hardware to build on an M1 and host while the github process for building is worked out.

[SuperBo]

Hi @Lewiscowles1986 , can you share the build with us :D

[Lewiscowles1986]

It didn’t build and it seems I e not kept a log of why, or what the errors were

[Tienisto]

Shouldn't flutter build macos build an universal build by default? I am maintainer of LocalSend and I did not do anything to ensure M1 support.

Maybe an ARM based computer is needed though...

[Lewiscowles1986]

It's not the same commands @Tienisto (I think due to the Rust and other commands); but it looks like https://appflowy.gitbook.io/docs/essential-documentation/contribute-to-appflowy/software-contributions/environment-setup/building-on-macos has cli options for arm64; so I guess for me; this was all I wanted.

[Lewiscowles1986]

This has led to flutter/flutter#130308 on a new mac I don't want to use appleId for, but it feels like that is a me problem.

[vncloudsco]

Are there any updates for this?

[LucasXu0]

We have provided the universal package for the M series chip from version 0.3.0.

[vncloudsco]

@LucasXu0
We do not see that we still have not been installed on ARM, even the built -in docker is not show that.

 => ERROR [linux/arm64 stage-1 2/8] RUN pacman -Syyu --noconfirm                                                                                                                               0.2s
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 > [linux/arm64 builder  2/25] RUN chown root:root /usr/bin/sudo && chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudo:                                                                                                       
0.131 exec /bin/sh: exec format error
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 > [linux/arm64 stage-1 2/8] RUN pacman -Syyu --noconfirm:
0.095 exec /bin/sh: exec format error
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Dockerfile:73
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  71 |     
  72 |     # Upgrade the system
  73 | >>> RUN pacman -Syyu --noconfirm
  74 |     
  75 |     # Install runtime dependencies
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ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c pacman -Syyu --noconfirm" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

[vncloudsco]

releases page only x86_64 support @LucasXu0