I wanted to post a progress update to getting WSJT-X built and running natively on Apple M1 hardware.
Today I managed to get FT8 to work natively on Apple M1 with version 2.5.3. Previously this was crashing due to a compiler issue (stacks on M1 are not executable). The gcc community posted a fix for this issue a few days ago and amazingly now the Jt9 process runs without crashing!! Amazing! There are still some remaining issues that I had to fix up manually for those that are interested: - I had to stub __chkstk_darwin() - I had to replace libgcc_s.1.1.dylib with libgcc_s.dylib (and then renamed to libgcc_s.1.1.dylib to cheat)… This is necessary otherwise ___addtf3 is an unresolved import and causes WSJT-X to crash on launch. - I had to manually sign the executable to run on Monterey 12.1. If anyone else is interested in building a native version of WSJT-X for Apple M1 please let me know and I will post my instructions… Once those issues listed above are resolved, I can look into getting this build into the official releases (which I have no idea how to do). Also just wanted to express my deepest condolences to Bill Somerville’s family and friends. If it wasn’t for his help I would never have been able to get the code ported over to Apple M1. He helped me learn Fortran and answered my deluge of questions with enthusiasm and humor. I will truly miss his support. RIP alex K6LOT > On Aug 27, 2021, at 10:25 AM, Alex Lelievre <a...@foinc.com> wrote: > > Good thing I didn’t see that Qt blog article otherwise I wouldn’t have tried > to build for arm64. ;-) > I was holding out until I saw that most of brew now supported the M1. > > I am still having some issues with the jt9 submodule crashing so I have some > more work to do getting the fortran code to play nice with gfortran 11.x. > I suspect I can fix this crash if I quiet some warnings about exceeding stack > sizes and/or reentrancy warnings… > > <Screen Shot 2021-08-27 at 8.46.41 AM.png> > > Alex [snip] _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
