Is there any hope of a macOS ARM build?

[emendelson]

I use wkhtmltopdf in various projects that run on macOS. As far as I know, there are no binaries for Apple Silicon (M1), and I haven't figured out how to build on an M1 Mac.

Is there any hope of getting an ARM build for the Mac?

Thanks to any help and advice.

[ashkulz]

Doesn't it work with Rosetta?

[fritzfr]

I'm also interested in this, currently getting:

RuntimeException: The exit status code '126' says something went wrong:
stderr: "sh: /Users/ME/project/vendor/bin/wkhtmltopdf-amd64: cannot execute binary file

[ashkulz]

Can you install the .pkg, run it directly and report any errors? I'm not sure where you got that file from.

[PhilterPaper]

@fritzfr what is the processor that you're running on? This thread concerns a request to run on ARM processors (under a Mac OS), while the -amd64 you mention is (AFAIK) for an Intel-compatible architecture.

[Snarik]

I have a similar issue, does not work when I enable rosetta either.

[ashkulz]

@Snarik what is the error you get?

[iagosr]

It's working for me. Installed via Homebrew on the terminal in Rosetta mode.
1 - Run the terminal in Rosetta mode.
2 - brew install wkhtmltopdf

[ashkulz]

I don't have access to a M1 and I think it'll hard to port Qt4 to it, unless the arm64 support works as-is. So Rosetta seems to be the only option for the foreseeable future.

[iagosr]

I still haven't been able to use the wkhtmltopdf right, it looks like it's not accessing my localhost (my apache and php were installed natively, without rosetta, I think that's the problem). It generates the pdf, but without the project's css. If I can't solve it, I think I'll have to use a docker = (

[Snarik]

It's working for me. Installed via Homebrew on the terminal in Rosetta mode.
1 - Run the terminal in Rosetta mode.
2 - brew install wkhtmltopdf

This was the solution for me. I had to completely remove Brew, start my terminal in rosetta mode, reinstall it, and then build my packages.

[iagosr]

It's working for me. Installed via Homebrew on the terminal in Rosetta mode.
1 - Run the terminal in Rosetta mode.
2 - brew install wkhtmltopdf

This was the solution for me. I had to completely remove Brew, start my terminal in rosetta mode, reinstall it, and then build my packages.

I'll probably have to do that too, since I installed everything natively except wkhtml.

[Snarik]

Yeah brew just does screwy things when you try to install it as ARM64. Better to just run your whole dev env as x86, the performance hit is minor I've found. Good luck.

[iagosr]

I managed to solve my problem by changing the hosts to the project's hostname. That way I didn't have to reinstall everything in Rosetta mode.

Example:
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 projectname.localhost

In this way, he loaded the entire css of the project in the pdf normally.

Updating the solution that worked for me:
1 - Run the terminal in Rosetta mode.
2 - brew install wkhtmltopdf
3 - Edit /etc/hosts changing localhost to the desired hostname
Ex: 127.0.0.1 projectname.localhost

I hope I helped in some way.