Latest Build of SC on Mac

Questions
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Hello,

I wanted to try the latest build (bleeding edge) of SC in the download section of the website : https://supercollider.github.io/downloads#mac

But it seems it is only compiled for Intel.

Is there a version available for ARM?
(an ARM version would be maybe more appropriate nowadays?)
Or do I have to compile it myself?

Many thanks,

Best,

Christophe

2

I noticed this as well. This was not the case last year, so something changed in the build setup. Who has the power to change it back?

Sam

3

That is indeed broken, thanks for reporting, I created a ticket: Add bleeding edge macOS arm download · Issue #285 · supercollider/supercollider.github.io · GitHub

In the meantime: You can download a development build for macOS arm via github, e.g. from https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/actions/runs/12806874179 (scroll down to artifacts) - but note that dev is currently a bit broken, wait a few days until Fix asio post invocation for `SC_TerminalClient` by capital-G · Pull Request #6590 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub is merged or download a build incuding the fix from https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/actions/runs/12789537995?pr=6590.

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Just to clarify, the arm dev build didn’t get broken, it’s a result of a change in the build configuration. Last year we had a “universal” intel+arm build so it was a single download for both architectures.
Because of the difficulties in obtaining “universal” intel+arm versions of some of the dependencies, we switched to having independent builds for intel and arm.
Since Intel builds can run on Arm through Rosetta 2, at the time of the switch I kept the Intel build as the one to upload to S3, where the “public” dev builds live.
This can definitely be changed so that we have both builds available.

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Wow, Thank you so much for the links.
I did not know I could get the latest build directly on Github, even with pull requests that have not yet been merged.

By testing with my program, the only issue I have noticed so far with the latest build is that the class WindowHandleView is broken. I opened an issue on Github. Otherwise everything seems fine.

Thanks a lot,

Christophe

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Downloads | SuperCollider has been updated and offers now the latest dev build for macOS x64, macOS arm64 and Windows x64