Yes i would love to see your instructions!

Thanks Gary KO3F

> On Dec 27, 2021, at 3:11 PM, Alex Lelievre via wsjt-devel 
> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> 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]
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