Hi Everyone,
Has anyone successfully installed Holochain on a new Macbook Pro or Air with the M1 chip? I was recently forced to upgrade my Pro due to a hardware failure, and I bought an Air with an M1 Chip due to budget constraints. The battery life on the M1 Air is incredible, I must say, but the Holochain install is proving impossible. I am following the installation instructions on the Holochain website, and when I get the the below step, it fails:
nix-shell https://nightly.holochain.love
To that end, has anyone successfully installed on a new M1? If so, would you be so kind as to let me know what you did. If not, does the dev team have any immediate plans of supporting this new architecture, which is sure to grow in popularity?
Thanks in advance,
Travis
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kaichao
November 5, 2021, 2:42am
#2
Waiting for my M1 pro to deliver. I’m also curious to try if holochain app works or not, it seems nix already supported and most rust libraries already has M1 support, so I guess it probably works out of box or just tweak the version of a few libraries, definitely haven’t try it though. Keep us updated if you make it work.
opened 12:12PM - 21 Aug 20 UTC
closed 07:29AM - 07 Sep 21 UTC
6.topic: darwin
0.kind: packaging request
Apple will be transitioning to ARM in the near future, starting with their Big S… ur release.
It would be great if we can get nixpkgs support for compiling ARM packages on Darwin
The NixOS Foundation has [access](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/3853#issuecomment-678249700) to a [Developer Transition Kit](https://developer.apple.com/programs/universal/) for testing, thanks to the friendly folks at Apple.
For now @edolstra and @rbvermaa have access to this DTK.
Note that we can get additional DTKs approved for anyone interested working on this ticket. We have a contact at Developer Relations who can help us with this. Please contact me if you would like to order a DTK to work on Nixpkgs support. (Cost is 500 US Dollars)
We also could get access to cloud machines through MacStadium. This might be interesting at a later stage for Hydra?
The original email that I got from Apple DevRel
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> Firstly, the most expedient way of obtaining a DTK would be for companies who have Nix maintainers and are registered as Apple developers can learn about the Universal Quick Start Program and apply for a DTK here:
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> https://developer.apple.com/programs/universal/
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> If this is the way your maintainers want to go, I would be happy to approve the applications to purchase the program. Someone noted on the thread they had applied and not been approved. I have approved then. Please let me know if there are any others.
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> Secondly, we have a relationship with MacStadium where qualified open source projects can simply get access to a DTK in the cloud. The maintainers of Nix should email opensource@macstadium.com.
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> The process for qualified OSS developers will be:
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> Developer signs up for a general MacStadium account so the MSA can be accepted.
> MacStadium will manually add the DTK asset to their account at no cost.
> Developer will have access to screen sharing on a DTK and can log in right away
kaichao
November 15, 2021, 6:55am
#3
Holonix needs to get updated to support M1,
opened 12:32AM - 27 Sep 21 UTC
closed 05:06PM - 08 Oct 21 UTC
Hi, I'm currently attempting to install the holonix shell according to the quick… start guide on an M1 mac running Big Sur. I've successfully installed nixOS but I'm getting an error related to the Rust development tools installation when installing Holonix.
```
nix-shell https://nightly.holochain.love
error: Component resolution failed for rust-default-1.54.0
- note: available extensions are cargo, clippy, clippy-preview, llvm-tools-preview, miri, miri-preview, reproducible-artifacts, rls, rls-preview, rust-analysis, rust-analyzer-preview, rust-docs, rust-mingw, rust-src, rust-std, rustc, rustc-dev, rustc-docs, rustfmt, rustfmt-preview
- Host component `rust-docs` doesn't support target `aarch64-apple-darwin`
```
Is there an alternative installation method I can use? Thank you!
Alan
November 15, 2021, 7:14am
#4
will it support M1 or not ?