Arm64 for Apple silicon

[yangpenglove]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

There are more and more mac computer will use M chip, but the nightly build still only has x86_64 arch, could you please add universal binary which includes both x86_64 and arm64?

Thanks

[postscript-dev]

@yangpenglove:

There are more and more mac computer will use M chip, but the nightly build still only has x86_64 arch, could you please add universal binary which includes both x86_64 and arm64?

When investigating support for Apple M chips, we found that there was no GitHub CI support. It is possible to cross build for Apple chips but we would not be able to run any tests to check that everything was working correctly. When GitHub adds support then someone can make the changes in Exiv2.

In #2173, another user requested adding support for Apple M chips. In there, there is a discussion on building Exiv2 from source that you may find helpful.

I am closing this issue as it is a duplicate of #2173.

[kmilos]

AFAIK, exiv2 0.27.5 is available from MacPorts for arm64, don't know about Homebrew...

Edit: On Homebrew as well.

[1div0]

Also, w/ BMFF enabled.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/1a0fc22bf98b372d71a8a137d285f5764375a547/Formula/exiv2.rb#L45

[gvellut]

When investigating support for Apple M chips, we found that there was no GitHub CI support.

There is now a runner for M1 actions:

• https://github.blog/2023-10-02-introducing-the-new-apple-silicon-powered-m1-macos-larger-runner-for-github-actions/ .
• [macOS] Apple Silicon (M1) powered macOS runners are now available in public beta! actions/runner-images#8439

(but it is not free for now)

[kgantchev]

(but it is not free for now)

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