#2692 new
Mike

Support for Apple Silicon

Reported by Mike | November 20th, 2020 @ 07:56 PM

Hi Benny,

Are there any plans to support Apple Silicon Macs? So far, MailMate works fine under Rosetta 2 but there is a struggle when I need to reply. Tested with Version 1.13.2 (5726).

Thanks in advance,

Mike.

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  • Chris Horn

    Chris Horn November 30th, 2020 @ 12:25 PM

    Like to upvote this one. I find it is mostly working pretty well as well on the new Mac Mini M1. But agree putting side by side with my other pro macs it is slower for the reply window to appear when click both at the same time.

  • benny

    benny November 30th, 2020 @ 02:03 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “accepted”

    On the M1 (well, on Big Sur) I recommend using the latest test release of MailMate (currently r5744). Hold down the option key while clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane.

    With respect to Apple Silicon / M1 / ARM-based SoC, it is hard for me to debug why “reply” would be slower without having an M1 machine myself (not going to happen soon), but it's probably also not worth investigating until after MailMate can run without Rosetta 2. It's not really a problem to compile my own code for Apple Silicon, but MailMate relies on some third party libraries which do not appear to be easily compiled for the M1 yet. Hopefully, that'll change in the coming months.

  • benny

    benny November 30th, 2020 @ 02:09 PM

    One way to keep an eye on third party dependencies is this page. I need at least libidn2/libunistring/libpsl/libressl to work.

  • benny

    benny December 19th, 2020 @ 10:28 AM

    Correction: I've removed the dependency on libressl which wasn't really necessary, but I had forgotten a couple of other dependencies. What is needed is libidn2, libunistring, libpsl, and capnp (libcapnp/libkj). I don't have an M1 machine and I haven't spent much time on this, but as far as I can see, the first two can be compiled without any issues while the others may be more complicated.

    I would be interesting in knowing if anyone has successfully compiled all of the above for an M1 machine, e.g., using brew.

  • benny

    benny December 21st, 2020 @ 02:42 PM

    Just to clarify, I believe I know what to do with libidn2 and libunistring. In other words, libpsl and capnp are likely the remaining obstacles for a universal build (and also whatever problems I haven't thought of yet :) ).

  • Sebastian Hagedorn

    Sebastian Hagedorn January 5th, 2021 @ 07:20 PM

    FWIW, I have an M1 Mac mini, and I just installed those without problems:

    Mac-mini ~ % brew install libpsl
    ==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/libpsl-0.21.1_1.arm64_big_s ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> Pouring libpsl-0.21.1_1.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz

  • Romain Bossart

    Romain Bossart April 8th, 2021 @ 07:54 AM

    Hello Benny, could you make progress on this thread? Thanks!

  • benny

    benny April 8th, 2021 @ 08:28 AM

    • State changed from “accepted” to “fixcommitted”

    Sorry, I should have updated this ticket earlier on. It's not on the regular test release track (yet), but the M1 is supported in recent universal builds. Here's the latest one: MailMate_r5792

  • Romain Bossart

    Romain Bossart April 8th, 2021 @ 09:21 AM

    Fantastic, thanks!

  • Christian Bailey

    Christian Bailey April 8th, 2021 @ 02:50 PM

    Wow! Thank you.

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