Macbook M1 Support

[wihu]

After cloning and building hashlink from repo, running hl command gives me segmentation fault.
Searching around the internet suggests that hashlink does not support arm64.
Tried to build using Rosetta, however, it seems a bit more complicated since it requires a variant of homebrew that is installed with x86_64 as well, while I have other projects which requires homebrew arm64.

Will there be a direct support for running hashlink on arm64 in the foreseeable future?

[Apprentice-Alchemist]

it requires a variant of homebrew that is installed with x86_64 as well, while I have other projects which requires homebrew arm64.

You should be able to have both x64 and arm64 homebrew installed, they use separate locations to install packages.

[yz-xlame]

https://gist.github.com/onehundredfeet/92e48e437b0ecc22935f49da3d966c38

[thomasjwebb]

Are there any plans on getting it compiled natively for Apple silicone?

[N3rdL0rd]

Are there any plans on getting it compiled natively for Apple silicone?

Little bit of shameless self-advertisement - but a viable option could be the hlc command that's part of crashlink (see source here). It's not quite functional yet, and I've mostly stopped working on it, but it should provide a good starting point (and I welcome PRs!). HL/C is the only real viable way of running HL bytecode natively on ARM, and in theory you could, easily enough, recompile the required native libs for a given bytecode module, link them against the generated C, then use that resulting binary.

[min-pascal]

HashLink ARM64 JIT Compiler

https://github.com/min-pascal/hashlink/tree/arm64

Native ARM64 JIT for HashLink — no more Rosetta. Tested on macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows (ARM64), and Linux (aarch64) with the Heaps game engine samples

Benchmark on M1 Pro — ARM64 native vs x86_64 Rosetta 2:

1.89x faster overall.

Alpha quality — bug reports and PRs welcome.