macOS Apple M1/Arm Support

[etmartinkazoo]

Are there plans to add macOS Apple M1/Arm Support. I'd like to install Mosh on my machine but Protocol Buffer is a required dependency. I imagine there will be a greater and greater demand for compatibility.

[acozzette]

What build error are you getting?

[etmartinkazoo]

The only Arm based package that I can see on the release page is protoc-3.14.0-linux-aarch_64.zip.

When adding the protoc binary to my PATH, I receive a cannot execute binary file when executing protoc --version in my terminal for example.

[acozzette]

It might take us some time to be able to start publishing precompiled binaries for Apple ARM machines, but you should still be able to use protobuf by building from source.

[jurmous]

Why was this issue closed? I still see no precompiled binaries for Mac arch 64? I am particularly interested in a precompiled Java build.

   > Could not find protoc-3.14.0-osx-aarch_64.exe (com.google.protobuf:protoc:3.14.0).
     Searched in the following locations:
         https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/protobuf/protoc/3.14.0/protoc-3.14.0-osx-aarch_64.exe

[Eric-Arellano]

I'd love to see pre-compiled binaries for macOS Arm too, although I know that might be non-trivial. Is there anything a first-time contributor might be able to help with?

[NielsKSchjoedt]

It might take us some time to be able to start publishing precompiled binaries for Apple ARM machines, but you should still be able to use protobuf by building from source.

@acozzette how would you do that? - I'm unable to do so: #8372

[studyzy]

Why closed this issue?

[askdesigners]

LOL. Classic Google move.

[nresare]

Having this Just Work™️ would be fantastic, and I think it makes sense to keep this issue open until then.

While waiting, I have had success by using the protoc binary from brew:

• follow instructions on https://brew.sh to install brew
• run brew install protobuf in a terminal.
  This should result in protoc being available in your path. Note that with the default zsh, the default shell on recent macOS, one needs to type the command rehash to detect newly installed binaries or changes to the PATH environment variable.

[bbeaupain]

Would really love to see some support for this - protobuf is an awesome project, and there are a lot of automated build systems (Maven for example) that break when including standard protobuf dependencies. M1 is most likely here to stay for quite a while and I'd be happy to provide remote access to an M1 machine if Google doesn't have them readily available.

[yuzawa-san]

A stopgap solution was merged #8557 However this issue is about true native support, rather than reusing the x86_64 artifact, so I feel this issue should be reopened.

[vborbely]

What I did for a quick fix is that, I opened the project in Android Studio. I opened the Gradle section on the right, and looked for the problematic package (flutter_blue package in my case).
Then I right clicked -> Open Gradle config -> changed the 2 parts show below:

When I did a "flutter pub get" it did not appear. However, I feel it will go away with a "flutter clean".

I hope this helped for someone.

Good luck,
Viktor

[jurmous]

A compatible build was released with 3.18.0 and later which includes builds for osx-aarch_64. The Aarch_64 build is however not included in the 4.0.0 RC releases.

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/protobuf/protoc/3.18.0/

[acozzette]

The 4.0.0 RC releases are old and abandoned. We thought about incrementing the major version number but ended up changing our minds after doing some release candidates. We left some of the 4.0.0 RC artifacts around to avoid breaking projects, but they should not be used.

[Eric-Arellano]

Hi, thanks so much for releasing Apple Silicon binaries at https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/protobuf/protoc/3.19.2/!

Would it be possible to please include a macOS ARM zip file with the GitHub release too, for folks who prefer downloading the zip file? https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v3.19.4

[Eric-Arellano]

For anyone who missed it, macOS Arm is released via GitHub! https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v3.20.1

Thank you so much to the folks who made this happen :)

[rkmaul]

What I did for a quick fix is that, I opened the project in Android Studio. I opened the Gradle section on the right, and looked for the problematic package (flutter_blue package in my case). Then I right clicked -> Open Gradle config -> changed the 2 parts show below:

When I did a "flutter pub get" it did not appear. However, I feel it will go away with a "flutter clean".

I hope this helped for someone.

Good luck, Viktor

Mantep mas bro

[muava12]

What I did for a quick fix is that, I opened the project in Android Studio. I opened the Gradle section on the right, and looked for the problematic package (flutter_blue package in my case). Then I right clicked -> Open Gradle config -> changed the 2 parts show below:

When I did a "flutter pub get" it did not appear. However, I feel it will go away with a "flutter clean".

I hope this helped for someone.

Good luck, Viktor

I can't find that folder inside android/

[muava12]

What I did for a quick fix is that, I opened the project in Android Studio. I opened the Gradle section on the right, and looked for the problematic package (flutter_blue package in my case). Then I right clicked -> Open Gradle config -> changed the 2 parts show below:

When I did a "flutter pub get" it did not appear. However, I feel it will go away with a "flutter clean".
I hope this helped for someone.
Good luck, Viktor

Mantep mas bro

Kok saya gak nemu folder flutter_blue ya di dalam folder android??

[TaronVardanyan]

Hey people, if you want to use old version of protobuf on Mac Pro M1 (ARM) and getting CPU or protoc-gen-grpc-web plugin issues I'm suggesting to use Rosetta2, that helped me to resolve a problem.

[dumndunm]

Having this Just Work™️ would be fantastic, and I think it makes sense to keep this issue open until then.

While waiting, I have had success by using the protoc binary from brew:

* follow instructions on https://brew.sh to install brew

* run `brew install protobuf` in a terminal.
  This should result in `protoc` being available in your path. Note that with the default zsh, the default shell on recent macOS, one needs to type the command `rehash` to detect newly installed binaries or changes to the `PATH` environment variable.

It worked for me, thank you 😊

[azizur-rahaman]

what I have done,
Open android folder in Android Studio > from left bar open gradle view > from here find flutter_blue and then right on it and click config > change it with latest version

you will get the latest version from here: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/protobuf/protoc/3.18.0/