fix: allow and pick darwin x86_64 binary on apple silicon macs

[sod]

When you try to npm install esbuild on a m1 mac, you see this error:

Allow and pick darwin x86_64 binary on apple silicon macs. It'll run just fine through rosetta 2 translation, at least throwing the 8.4MB typescript.js file against it works without complaining:

Native darwin arm64 seems not to be supported yet by golang. It's planned for go v1.16 (from golang/go#42756)

[evanw]

Oh huh, that's pretty neat. Definitely a good fix in the meantime. Thanks for trying it out and for putting this together. I'll have to trust you that it works since I don't have access to a M1 myself.

[evanw]

This has been released. Please let me know if this works for you or not.

[sod]

Yes, can confirm. npm install esbuild works. And vite via npm i -g vite; npm init vite-app vite-test; cd vite-test; npm run build works as well. Thx for publishing it 👍

[RoXuS]

@sod I get

Do you do something else?

[sod]

Do you have rosetta 2 installed?

[RoXuS]

nop, oh I have to you use rosetta2 on this ?

[sod]

x86 binaries don't run natively on m1. They have to be transpiled by rosetta 2 to function.

Native darwin arm64 binary for esbuild is not possible at this time, as golang has no support for it yet.

[sod]

And you don't have to actively "use rosetta 2", it just has to be installed and then just transparently compiles x86 binaries to arm64 when it encounters one.

[RoXuS]

Oh thx! Work as expected!

[evanw]

Heads up that this might not be completely smooth sailing. The Hugo project (another Go-based web development tool) is getting reports of emulation issues with running Go-based code with Rosetta 2: gohugoio/hugo#7968. I'm not yet aware of any reports like this from esbuild users but I wouldn't be surprised if it comes up.

[RoXuS]

@sod, it is ok if you install go from head if you don't want to wait Go 1.16.
With this GIST -> https://gist.github.com/felixbuenemann/d08875fc3e1a69fe8d6eaa724829c950

Working great!