6 Platform and OS Compatibility

6. Platform and OS Compatibility

Tincan is designed to run across Unix and Windows environments.

Operating System	Architecture	Audio Driver	Status	Binary Asset
macOS 11+	Apple Silicon (`aarch64`)	CoreAudio	Fully Supported	Yes (`tincan-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz`)
macOS 11+	Intel (`x86_64`)	CoreAudio	Fully Supported	Yes (`tincan-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz`)
Linux	x86_64	ALSA / Pulse / PipeWire	Fully Supported	Yes (`tincan-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz`)
Linux	ARM64 (Raspberry Pi 4)	ALSA	Fully Supported	Yes (`tincan-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz`)
Windows 10/11	x86_64	WASAPI	Roadmap (v0.2.0)	Source compile
Android	Termux ARM64	OpenSL ES / AAudio	Roadmap (v0.2.0)	Source compile

Microphone Permissions: Granted to the terminal app executing tincan (Terminal, iTerm2, VS Code, Alacritty).
Code Signing: Binaries are ad-hoc signed (codesign -s -).

Static Opus Linking: Linux release assets link Opus statically to ensure zero libopus.so runtime dependency issues across distros.