Can't run the basic reflex app on the 'arm64' packages of my M1 chip mac

[aditya-arolkar-swe]

Did anybody else see this issue while trying to run reflex on their M1+ mac? Looks like it wants charset_normalizer in the x86_64 version. Tried to pip uninstall and install charset_normalizer with and without the default binaries and that didn't fix it.

(venv) adityaarolkar@Aditya-Arolkar-MacBook-Pro my_reflex_project % reflex init --template reflex
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin/reflex", line 5, in <module>
    from reflex.reflex import cli
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/reflex/reflex.py", line 14, in <module>
    from reflex_cli.utils import dependency
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/reflex_cli/utils/dependency.py", line 11, in <module>
    import charset_normalizer
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/charset_normalizer/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from .api import from_bytes, from_fp, from_path, is_binary
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/charset_normalizer/api.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .cd import (
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/charset_normalizer/cd.py", line 14, in <module>
    from .md import is_suspiciously_successive_range
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-312-darwin.so, 0x0002): tried: '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-312-darwin.so' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-312-darwin.so' (no such file), '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-312-darwin.so' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64'))

[Alek99]

You may need to run this command https://reflex.dev/docs/getting-started/installation/#prerequisites

[aditya-arolkar-swe]

No luck, I think that's only for the apple silicon chips

(venv) adityaarolkar@Aditya-Arolkar-MacBook-Pro my_reflex_project % /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license
Installing Rosetta 2 on this system is not supported.

[Alek99]

Interesting Rosetta 2 should be supported on M1 Macs

[aditya-arolkar-swe]

Ah the issue wasn't reflex - it was the IDE I was running it on. Was an older version of the Pycharm CE. After updating it, I was able to execute reflex run with no issues.

[boscojwho]

Ran into similar issue when I cloned an existing Reflex project on an M1 Mac:
Ended up fixing issue with some extra steps (in case anyone runs into this):

1. Uninstall PyCharm (and all related IDE directories)
2. Re-install using JetBrains' Toolbox app (as suggested by JetBrains here https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/9835521499410-M1-Mac-PyCharm-Unable-to-run-on-arm64)

--> [at this point, running reflex run still gave x86 arch error]

4. Remove project's venv.
5. Reinstall project's venv.
6. Run pip install reflex.
7. Success!