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| author | Max Desiatov <max@desiatov.com> | 2022-02-15 21:32:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Tim Flynn <trflynn89@pm.me> | 2022-02-16 11:29:31 -0500 |
| commit | 4b85866746e6d8a4974201c5f0ee02c6910fa19a (patch) | |
| tree | 1c8aef6708759df95ebb1fd3b4b6e42b97394218 /Documentation | |
| parent | 7a035558e103f443a1d9e237c283e64196eb720c (diff) | |
| download | serenity-4b85866746e6d8a4974201c5f0ee02c6910fa19a.zip | |
Documentation: Add Rosetta/Homebrew macOS note
This should prevent a build issue caused by a potential
conflicting zstd installation on M1 Mac.
This was manifested in a linker error when building
the GNU toolchain:
```
Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
[gcc/build] "_ZSTD_compress", referenced from:
```
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/BuildInstructionsMacOS.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/BuildInstructionsMacOS.md b/Documentation/BuildInstructionsMacOS.md index 86309fe220..fc380bcfd7 100644 --- a/Documentation/BuildInstructionsMacOS.md +++ b/Documentation/BuildInstructionsMacOS.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Make sure you also have all the following dependencies installed: ```console # core -brew install coreutils e2fsprogs qemu bash gcc@11 imagemagick ninja cmake ccache rsync +brew install coreutils e2fsprogs qemu bash gcc@11 imagemagick ninja cmake ccache rsync zstd # (option 1) fuse + ext2 brew install m4 autoconf automake libtool @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ Toolchain/BuildFuseExt2.sh brew install genext2fs ``` +If you're building on M1 Mac and have Homebrew installed in both Rosetta and native environments, +you have to make sure that required packages are installed only in one of the environments. Otherwise, +these installations can conflict during the build process, which is manifested in hard to diagnose issues. +Building on M1 natively without Rosetta is recommended, as the build process should be faster without Rosetta +overhead. + Notes: - Installing macfuse for the first time requires enabling its system extension in System Preferences and then restarting |