Apple Silicon Support?

[wbsdty331]

Checklist

• I read and understood ASF's Contributing Guidelines
• I also read Setting-up and FAQ, I don't need help, this is an enhancement idea
• My idea doesn't duplicate existing ASF functionality described on the wiki
• I believe that my idea falls into ASF's scope and should be offered as part of ASF built-in functionality
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• My idea doesn't violate the Steam Online Conduct
• This is not ASF-ui suggestion

Enhancement purpose

to Native Support Apple Silicon (M1)

Solution

Apple has announced plans to transition its Mac hardware line to a new Arm64-based chip that they refer to as “Apple Silicon”.

from this issue, it looks like dotnet 5 will work good on Apple Rosetta 2 Emulation. and Microsoft said .NET 6 will native support apple silicon.

In this time i think we can release a darwin-arm64 build.

Why currently available solutions are not sufficient?

It looks like ASF only release macOS x64 version.

Can you help us with this enhancement idea?

Yes, I can code the solution myself and send a pull request

Additional info

No response

[JustArchi]

This is a good suggestion.

However, Apple Sillicon or so-called osx-arm64 variant is supported starting from .NET 6.0 onwards, which is in a preview/unstable state as of today, so this can't be evaluated for current mainline of ASF which is still targetting .NET 5.0.

I've added your suggestion to our wishlist for later in PR #2388.

Since we already have a PR aggregating all of our .NET 6.0 stuff we plan to take care of, I'll close this issue as there won't be any work on it until .NET 6.0 gets merged anyway.

Thanks for posting 👍.

[wbsdty331]

By the way, why not release win-arm64 platform? dotnet 5 support it.

[JustArchi]

For the same reason why we don't release win-x86.