LyX on Apple silicon?

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

I seem to recall that during the previous processor switch there were
Apps in a combined mode, forgot what the name was, which would run on
both processors, so I assume XCode will eventually do that.

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On 2020-11-17 18:55 , Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 11/17/20 10:55 AM, Chris Menzel wrote:
>> 2.  What are the plans for creating native LyX binaries for these new
>> Macs?
>
> Stephan will know better than I, but presumably there are two options.
> (i) Someone who has one of these things is able to compile the source
> and produce the binaries.  It would take a bit to get the build
> environment set up properly, but once that's done, I don't think it's
> that hard.  (ii) It becomes possible to cross-compile for M1 on, say,
> Linux.  At the moment, that does not seem to be possible, and maybe
> there are reasons it will never be.  Apple does not seem terribly
> supportive of that kind of effort.
>
> Riki
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