Support for ARM?

[saimon-moore]

Hi,

I just tried this on an M1 and it crashes with a segfault just as soon as I try to open a folder exported with https://github.com/rusq/slackdump/blob/master/doc/usage-export.rst#export-types (standard export)

Any chance, a build for arm will become available soon?

[thayakawa-gh]

Hi, @saimon-moore. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Because I will be very busy for the next few months, I can't release it right away.
In SlackLogViewer, Qt5 is used as a GUI toolkit, but it doesn't seem to support Apple Silicon natively, so I have to upgrade the Qt version to 6. In addition, I don't have a mac so I can't easily build/test. I need someone's help to release the binary.
From the above, I don't know when I will be able to work on it. I hope you will wait for a while until I can make time to do so.

[saimon-moore]

Yes I will wait patiently. Unfortunately I don't have the chops to try it myself :(

Thank you very much

[norim13]

Hey 👋 I haven't run any C code since college, so my knowledge is pretty much gone, but if someone can give me some guidance I can help try to build this on Apple silicon.

(getting the segmentation fault myself too)

[thayakawa-gh]

Hi, saimon-moore and norim13. Sorry for my late reply.
Now I've got some time and started working on migration of SlackLogViewer to Qt6.
I'll provide you a pilot version soon, so it would be helpful if you could test it on Apple Silicon.

[thayakawa-gh]

Now test builds (using Qt5 or Qt6) for macOS are available. They can be downloaded from the links -> Artifacts -> macos or macos-qt6.
Could you try them on your mac?

[norim13]

Just tried both, but unfortunately I think none worked 😕 It crashes immediately once I select the folder I want to open. Is there any way for me to give you better data about the actual error? Any logs I can fetch somewhere?

(btw, apologies for taking so long... only saw this now 🤦)

[thayakawa-gh]

Hmm, the cause of the crash should be isolated first.

1. Apple silicon
   We need someone to test the latest SlackLogViewer on both apple silicon and intel cpu.
2. Problems with the export file formatting
   If you have export files from various workspaces, it would be helpful if you could test as many of them as possible.
3. Simple bugs in SlackLogViewer
   I think this is the most likely scenario. I'm working on adding a function to display error messages when critical problems occur.

In fact, it would be great if someone could debug it on mac...

[sclsj]

Since this issue hasn't been closed, I assume you would still need someone to test on Apple Silicon? I have a m1 max macbook and is glad to help.

[sclsj]

Also, have you considered releasing two versions (two .tar.xz files or two .apps in one .tar.xz file in this case), one for each architecture? Personally I generally dislike Universal Binaries because it wastes space while adding no real benefit to me, and it seems to complicate the build process sometimes, I heard. It seems like both sides have a valid argument, and I've seen big companies taking different approaches.