Support for Apple Silicon - bad CPU type in executable: flashlight

[tormoseng]

I'm running MacOS 14.2.1 on an Apple Mac M3. And after running curl https://get.flashlight.dev | bash, I try:

$ flashlight measure

Then, my response is

bad CPU type in executable: flashlight

Is this due to missing support of Apple Silicon?

Note: I'm able to clone your repo and run test and report as guided in the contribution.md, but it would be nice to do it with only $ flaslight

[Almouro]

Hi, thanks for raising this!

Turns out so far, we've been relying on people having Rosetta installed to run the Flashlight executable as an Intel executable

But we should really have a proper arm64 executable for Apple silicon as well, we'll look into this 👍

[tormoseng]

Thanks so much! It would be very appreciated 🙌

[gabimoncha]

I have an M1 Max and flashlight is working on my device

[tormoseng]

I have an M1 Max and flashlight is working on my device

Without Rosetta?

[gabimoncha]

yes, installed through normal iTerm session, without Rosetta

[chanphiromsok]

it too slow when profiler on M1

[tormoseng]

@gabimoncha I just now saw that you wrote iTerm session, so I tried to get and run flashlight on iTerm (and not the Mac terminal), but it still fails with the same message. I'm on M3 if that is different from M1?

[Sumedh-k]

As a workaround you can run it using Rosetta with this command.

arch -x86_64 flashlight measure

To install Rosetta use this command.

softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

[tormoseng]

Last update from me. I'm now using iTerm with Rosetta to run the flashlight commands, while my regular mac terminal runs as before. It works - even though supporting Apple Silicon would be nice!

[Randall71]

@Almouro This problem deserves to be pinned

[Almouro]

Good point @Randall71! Still not fixed on our side, it's just a bit annoying since we have to codesign the executable now, but it's underway

In the meantime I've pinned the issue and linked @Sumedh-k's helpful comment to the install docs in https://docs.flashlight.dev/