Re: PSPP builds after Intel-only 1.6.2 on Mac Monterey 12.6 and later (M1/M2 Silicon chips / Universal rather than Rosetta stimulation)

[Jeremy Lavergne]

One should fetch an arm-only build where they fetched an intel-only build.

The MacPorts arm64 builders have been successfully building PSPP 
arm64-only for quite a while.

For example, these use `CFLAGS=... -arch arm64`:
https://ports.macports.org/port/pspp-devel/builds/?builder_name__name=12_arm64&builder_name__name=11_arm64



On 9/18/22 16:01, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> None of the PSPP developers use a Mac. I don't know of anyone working
> on this. If anyone is, I hope they will speak up.
>
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 1:00 PM Patrick Davey Tully <pdavmail@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm curious if PSPP after the 1.6.2 stable build for Mac (native only for Mac 
> > Intel) might be in development for use as a Universal (works natively without 
> > stimulation - Rosetta) on Apple Silicon chips: which are the chipsets used on 
> > Apple's M1 and M2 laptops of 1-2 years? Sometimes application developers create 
> > code for an Intel app and then for an Apple Silicon app separately which in 
> > that case they have separate builds available. But if they decide to create one 
> > app build that supports both Intel and Silicon natively without stimulation for 
> > silicon then it is a Universal app (and labeled as such in the Application - 
> > shown to the end-user who installs it).
> >
> > I know that Apple plans to end support for Rosetta stimulation at some point in 
> > the future and so I do hope that PSPP does have plans for native support in 
> > some way. I don't mind at all if the builds are separate.
> >
> > I will say after a restart PSPP v1.6.2 works reasonably well for me. But again, 
> > I'm curious if the developers think this would be easy to do. If they do make a 
> > Universal app, then in my mind the work becomes much easier after that point, 
> > as Apple would not be transitioning chips again for a long time! And a 
> > universal app would take care of both Intel and Silicon chip computers.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Patrick