(addition) Linux arm64 dwarfs binary build

[samuelwatsonofficial]

Hey, I am trying to use dwarfs in a project of mine and many of the people using it are on the new MacOS on the M1 and M2 architechture. I saw that the linux arm64 binary build supports everything except the tool dwarfs which unfortunately is the only thing I need. Are there plans to support this in the future? If not, I would like to show that there is a need for this from a user perspective.
Once again, thanks for making this project and your continual help!

[mhx]

I unfortunately completely fail to understand your issue :)

1. All binaries provided for download from the releases page (i.e. Linux and Windows) support everything, i.e. also the dwarfs tool, regardless of architecture.
2. There are no (and likely will never be) binaries for MacOS due to the overhead of getting binaries signed by Apple.
3. The build procedure for MacOS has been tested both on x86_64 and arm64 MacOS and will provide all tools without limitations.

Can you point me to where you saw that dwarfs isn't supported?

[samuelwatsonofficial]

Ah, so the first part of that was me assuming that to run an m1 binary I would download the LinuxARM binary and run that. I didn't realise that binaries function differently on MacOS and require signing; does this mean in order to use dwarfs on MacOS I should build and run it on the target computer?

[mhx]

does this mean in order to use dwarfs on MacOS I should build and run it on the target computer?

Yes, this is currently the way to go.

If you want to help (and have access to a macOS machine), you could try to create a Homebrew formula for DwarFS.

[mhx]

Closing this for now, feel free to re-open if you don't consider this solved.