Provide pre-built Macbook M1 binaries

[mmomtchev]

Waiting on actions/runner-images#2187

[mmomtchev]

I am looking for a company willing to cover the costs of renting a remote Apple M1 host in order to provide support for the new Apple Macbooks. If paying by the hour, you should expect about 1 or 2 days of uptime per month.

[alexcroox]

If anyone is looking for a workaround to get this running locally on M1 Macs:

brew install gdal
npm install gdal-async --build-from-source --shared_gdal

[jdesboeufs]

If you are still interested I can cover these costs with my company.
A Mac Mini M1 (by Scaleway) may do the job?

[mmomtchev]

Yes, a Mac Mini M1 by Scaleway would be perfect, I would need a day or two to make it work and certainly less than a day per month for further testing and development.

[jdesboeufs]

Sadly they are currently out of stock. I will keep you informed.

[radoslavirha]

Hi,

any progress in M1 build?

Thanks!

[jdesboeufs]

Sadly Scaleway doesn't provide M1 instances anymore :(

[utix]

Can any ARM VM do the job ?

[thom4parisot]

Sounds like it's on GitHub roadmap for Q3 Q4. There used to be a beta access but the link is not working anymore.

Can any ARM VM do the job ?

It should, as long as it can be registered as a GitHub Action self-hosted runner.

@jdesboeufs aaaand it sounds like Scaleway offers M1 mini again.

[jdesboeufs]

@thom4parisot Not in the dashboard.

[alexcroox]

actions/runner-images#8439

GitHub action M1 support is now available

[mmomtchev]

Github actions support has been available for some time now, but porting without being able to build locally is not really feasible

[mmomtchev]

I would just like to remind everyone that I work for free, I have a $2.50 budget per meal and that the French police is intimidating me while all of the users of this project are showing me with random messages that they fully back this extortion.

If anyone wants M1 binaries, you will have to pay for a M1 host.

[thom4parisot]

And are you okay with receiving a physical Mac Mini? I suppose it can be setup as a GitHub runner.

I'm happy to contribute to buying/delivering it. If anybody want to tag along 👍🏻

[mmomtchev]

Of course that I am, I will support M1 if I can have a build host.

[zy6p]

Adrressed as actions/runner-images#8439 and M1 is now available!

[mmomtchev]

I still need a build host that I can access to implement the support.

[mmomtchev]

It is a pity that most of my users are cheeky criminals who decided to slide with somebody who was extorting me for money (and a particularly distasteful to mention here problem) with the help of the French judiciary and the police against someone who was making them free software. If you want M1 binaries, you will have to find $5/month. Period.

[lautarodapin-magoya]

If anyone is looking for a workaround to get this running locally on M1 Macs:

brew install gdal
npm install gdal-async --build-from-source --shared_gdal

how do i use this with pnpm

[kgantchev]

Adrressed as actions/runner-images#8439 and M1 is now available!

Might I make a suggestion here? You can try the FlyCI's M1 and M2 runners which are on average about 2x faster and 2x cheaper than GitHub's runners . We also offer a free tier of 500 mins/month on the M1 runner for OSS projects.

Pricing

Processor	vCPU	RAM (GB)	Storage	Label	Price on FlyCI	Price on GitHub
M1	4	7	28 GB	flyci-macos-large-latest-m1	$0.06	-
M1	8	14	28 GB	flyci-macos-xlarge-latest-m1	$0.12	$0.16
M2	4	7	28 GB	flyci-macos-large-latest-m2	$0.08	-
M2	8	14	28 GB	flyci-macos-xlarge-latest-m2	$0.16	-

Guide for Implementation

1. Install the FlyCI GitHub app.
2. Modify the runs-on directive in workflow files as demonstrated in this PR.
3. Enjoy 2x faster and 2x cheaper MacOS workflow runs!

jobs:
 ci:
-    runs-on: macos-latest
+    runs-on: flyci-macos-large-latest-m1
   steps:
   - name: 👀 Checkout repo
     uses: actions/checkout@v4

We'll be very happy to have you on board.

[mmomtchev]

As you may have seen from my profile, I am currently living on social welfare because of an extortion involving the French police and judiciary about a series of false criminal proceedings - in order to intimidate me people are posting simultaneously comments and issues on my projects - your is simultaneous with a PR from snyk which seem to have accepted to back the intimidation.