Support for MacBook Pro with chip Apple M1 Pro running macOS Monterey

[ManjiriBirajdar]

Environment:

Using MacBook Pro, with chip Apple M1 Pro and running macOS Monterey.

When installing EOSIO with Homebrew

% brew install eosio

the following error is thrown:

eosio: The intel architecture is required for this software.
Error: eosio: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

[ericpassmore]

Try DUNE, https://github.com/eosnetworkfoundation/DUNE
Macbook M1 users have gotten EOS to work using docker.

I believe, EOS is no longer supporting arm architecture as a compile from source.

[spoonincode]

Unfortunately we're not supporting macOS at the moment so there will be no macOS packages (such as via homebrew) provided by us.

DUNE is the supported way of running the software on macOS (it runs it via a Linux VM). DUNE is aimed at contract developers, not so much for running a long term node connected to a public network. It will work on both x86 & ARM macOS.

That said, we're still treating non supported platforms as "best effort" -- they are periodically monitored and PRs to fix defects are welcome. In particular:

• ARM8 Linux: Builds & passes all tests but test_abieos_template fails on arm8 builds #614. (fwiw, this is the build that DUNE uses in a VM on macOS ARM, so it's in more of a "semi-supported" state)
• x86_64 macOS: 3.1.0-rc was known to build & pass all tests
• ARM8 macOS: Build failure due to remove direct YubiHSM support; replace with generic HSM support #110 problems (otherwise it would have passed everything but test_abieos_template fails on arm8 builds #614)

Keep in mind ARM8 builds do not have fast wasm execution engines making them impractical to run on most public networks.