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by TheKnack 1556 days ago
Is the user supposed to have to use chmod to make the launcher executable on Mac? The docs don't mention anything about it so I'm not sure how non-devs will figure out how to run it.

Are there plans for an M1 version? I checked Gitlab issues and didn't see anything.
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fredoliveira 1556 days ago
I was curious too, so I decided to build it. The build process took exactly 5min8sec on a M1 Pro, and was pretty flawless. Only gotcha was that I had to install rust v1.59.0-nightly using rustup because of one of the dependencies.

If you want to do the same:

  brew install cmake git-lfs
  git lfs install
  git clone https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren.git
  cd veloren
  cargo run
Based on this, I see no reason for a downloadable M1-ready version of Veloren to be made available. Compilation is trivial and fast, so might as well.
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Jweb_Guru 1556 days ago
It already runs on M1. The chmod thing is an issue with the CI that should get fixed soon, hopefully.
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TheKnack 1556 days ago
It runs on M1 under Rosetta emulation. Performance and stability would be better with an M1 native version.

It looks like the chmod issue has been around a long time. I found Reddit posts going back a year or two. If it's not going to be fixed, why not put a note on the downloads page so people can actually run the game?

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Jweb_Guru 1556 days ago
Veloren uses some native libraries, so IIRC getting it to work under Rosetta was not completely painless either. That said, the reason native M1 builds aren't currently offered is that Apple makes it a pain to compile from other architectures, not that Veloren doesn't compile for M1 (it does). I believe native M1 builds are actually in progress right now. So is the chmod issue, which AFAIK we only figured out the root cause of relatively recently (September?).
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